4. A defining characteristic of plants is their life cycle, in which gametophyte and sporophyte generations stage of the moss's life cycle is dominant. The stage; the spores (stages) alternate. The gametes produced by this stage fuse to form the produced by this stage develop into another stage.

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3. Mosses are very good at absorbing water. Peat moss, also known as sphagnum moss, is particularly good
at holding water, which is why it is often used in horticulture to improve soil structure and drainage. If
you made a wet mount of a sphagnum moss leaf on a microscope slide and observed it with a compound
light microscope, it would look like the image on the right. In that image of the magnified leaf, label a
water-holding cell, the location of photosynthetic cells, and a reinforcing rib.
Left: sphagnum moss (peat moss)
right: a single magnified sphagnum leaf
4.
A defining characteristic of plants is their life cycle, in which gametophyte and sporophyte generations
(stages) alternate. The
stage of the moss's life cycle is dominant. The
stage; the spores
gametes produced by this stage fuse to form the
produced by this stage develop into another
stage.
Transcribed Image Text:3. Mosses are very good at absorbing water. Peat moss, also known as sphagnum moss, is particularly good at holding water, which is why it is often used in horticulture to improve soil structure and drainage. If you made a wet mount of a sphagnum moss leaf on a microscope slide and observed it with a compound light microscope, it would look like the image on the right. In that image of the magnified leaf, label a water-holding cell, the location of photosynthetic cells, and a reinforcing rib. Left: sphagnum moss (peat moss) right: a single magnified sphagnum leaf 4. A defining characteristic of plants is their life cycle, in which gametophyte and sporophyte generations (stages) alternate. The stage of the moss's life cycle is dominant. The stage; the spores gametes produced by this stage fuse to form the produced by this stage develop into another stage.
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A life cycle refers to the sequence of changes or stages that an organism goes through during its lifetime, from birth to death. In biology, the term life cycle is often used to describe the various stages that an organism passes through, such as infancy, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

For plants and some other organisms, the life cycle involves distinct phases that alternate between sexual and asexual reproduction, leading to the production of offspring that inherit genetic traits from their parents. Understanding the life cycle of an organism is important for understanding its growth, development, and reproduction.

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