In flowering plants, the gametophytes are ____
a. smaller than the sporophytes and do not nourish themselves
b. smaller than the sporophytes but are free-living and nourish themselves for most of their lives
c. usually larger than the sporophytes, and free-living
d. usually larger than the sporophytes, and both nourish themselves
e. roughly equal in size tosporophytes and both nourish themselves
ANSWER: a
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