How do fern sperm reach the archegonium for fertilization?
a. using multiple flagella to follow chemoattractants released by the archegonium
b. unusually among vascular plants, it is the archegonium that seeks out the sperm
c. they are ejected from the xylem in jets of water toward nearby gametophytes
d. the fern sperm and archegonium develop within the same strobili
a. using multiple flagella to follow chemoattractants released by the archegonium
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