Describe the life cycles of animals, plants/some fungi, and other fungi/algae with respect to the amount of time each
type of organism spends in their haploid and diploid phases. Also indicate whether those haploid and diploid phases are
unicellular or multicellular.
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Animals spend most of their life cycle in the diploid multicellular phase, with a reduced
unicellular haploid phase. Plants and some fungi spend equal amounts of their life cycle in
the haploid and diploid phases, and each is multicellular. Other fungi/algae have a dominant
haploid phase that is multicellular and a reduced diploid phase that is unicellular.
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