Some botanists consider the stoneworts to be a link between the higher plants and the algae. As you will learn in future exercises, higher plants, such as the mosses, have both haploid and diploid stages that are multicellular.

(a) Describe the multicellular organism in the charophytes.
(b) Is this organism haploid or diploid?
(c) Is the zygote haploid or diploid?
(d) Is the zygote unicellular or multicellular?


(a) Describe the multicellular organism in the charophytes. Consists of nodes, internodes, with gametangia borne at the nodes.
(b) Is this organism haploid or diploid? haploid
(c) Is the zygote haploid or diploid?diploid
(d) Is the zygote unicellular or multicellular?unicellular

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