Body building on land: morphological evolution of land plants.
Land plants are derived from green algal ancestors and made their first appearance on land 460 million years ago. The life cycle of the land plant body comprises two multicellular stages -- one haploid (gametophyte) and the other diploid (sporophyte). Recent discoveries suggest that the genes contro...
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| Language: | English |
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2009
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