LAND PLANT CHARACTERISTICS. #1. “The embryophytes are unique among all extant lineages in possessing three important and interrelated reproductive attributes. First, they possess a sexual life cycle that requires an alternation between a multicellular haploid generation, which produces sperm and egg cells (the gametophyte), and a multicellular diploid generation, which produces meiospores with sporopollenin-rich walls (the sporophyte).”
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