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    Kingdom Plantae The Seedless Vascular Plants

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    Gymnosperms are seed plants that first appeared in the Carboniferous period and reproduce through naked seeds. They have four divisions: cycadophyta consisting of palm-like cycads; ginkgophyta containing the maidenhair tree; gnetophyta found in deserts with the largest known leaves; and coniferophyta including pines, firs and redwoods. The life cycle of pine trees involves the diploid sporophyte producing cones that undergo meiosis, with the megaspores developing into multicellular female gametophytes within which archegonia form to be fertilized.

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    Gymnosperms are seed plants that first appeared in the Carboniferous period and reproduce through naked seeds. They have four divisions: cycadophyta consisting of palm-like cycads; ginkgophyta containing the maidenhair tree; gnetophyta found in deserts with the largest known leaves; and coniferophyta including pines, firs and redwoods. The life cycle of pine trees involves the diploid sporophyte producing cones that undergo meiosis, with the megaspores developing into multicellular female gametophytes within which archegonia form to be fertilized.

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    Gymnosperms are seed plants that first appeared in the Carboniferous period and reproduce through naked seeds. They have four divisions: cycadophyta consisting of palm-like cycads; ginkgophyta containing the maidenhair tree; gnetophyta found in deserts with the largest known leaves; and coniferophyta including pines, firs and redwoods. The life cycle of pine trees involves the diploid sporophyte producing cones that undergo meiosis, with the megaspores developing into multicellular female gametophytes within which archegonia form to be fertilized.

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    Gymnosperms are seed plants that first appeared in the Carboniferous period and reproduce through naked seeds. They have four divisions: cycadophyta consisting of palm-like cycads; ginkgophyta containing the maidenhair tree; gnetophyta found in deserts with the largest known leaves; and coniferophyta including pines, firs and redwoods. The life cycle of pine trees involves the diploid sporophyte producing cones that undergo meiosis, with the megaspores developing into multicellular female gametophytes within which archegonia form to be fertilized.

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    Kingdom plantae

    The seedless vascular plants


    Gymnosperms
    • They are seed plants with naked seed
    • They first appeared in the carboniferous period
    • The reproductive structures are cones
    • Female cones are called pistillate cones are large and produce megaspores
    • Male cones are called staminate are small and produce microspores
    • Gymnosperms have 4 division cycadophyta, ginkgophyta, gnetophyta, and
    coniferophyta
    Division cycadophyta
    • Cycados which are palm like plants
    • There are 10 surviving species
    Division Ginkgophyta
    • Ginkgos also called maiden hair tree
    • Have fan-like leaves
    • One surviving species, Ginkgo, Ginkgo biloba tree is found at
    university of zimbabwe
    Division Gnetophyta
    • Consists of three qenera, weltwitshia , Gnetum and ephedra
    • Are found in deserts and have the largest known leaves
    Division Coniferophyta
    • The division includes pines, firt and redwoods that are collectively
    called conifers
    • An example is pinus
    Life Cycle Of Pinus
    • The large tree is the diploid sporophyta that produces reproductive
    structure called cones
    • Each scale of the female cones bears 2 sporangia on the upper surface
    • Meiosis occurs in the sporangium producing haploid megaspores, three of
    which disintegrate
    • Remaining megaspores undergoes repeated mitotic division giving rise to a
    multicellular female gametophyte (megagametophyte)
    • Female gametophyte produce two to five tiny archegonia at the micropylar
    end
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