Ch. 10-2: Seedless Reproduction (Quiz Review)

Which stage of plants produce haploid spores in spore cases?

• gametophyte

• sporophyte

If you are out in nature and look down to see moss as a green, low-growing mass, what stage are you viewing?

• gametophyte

• sporophyte

T/F: Mosses can carry out photosynthesis in the gametophyte stage.

• true; it cannot carry out photosynthesis in the sporophyte stage

• false; it carries out photosynthesis in the sporophyte stage

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What is the tiny structure, found on the tip of the stalk, which stores the spores called?

While you are examining a moss, you notice tiny, brownish stalks growing up from the plant. What stage are you looking at?

• gametophyte

• sporophyte

The ______ begins the sporophyte stage and develops into an embryo.

• haploid zygote

• diploid zygote

• mature sporophyte

• mature gametophyte

In the sporophyte stage, what does the embryo develop into?

• stalk

• spore capsule

• mature gametophyte

• reproductive structures

What occurs in the capsule, producing spores?

• meiosis

• mitosis

• osmosis

• none of these

What is produced in the reproductive structures of male and female moss gametophytes?

Select any option that describes a way in which the sperm meets the egg, in the moss life cycle.

• heavy dew

• rain

• wind

• animals