NEET 2011 Biology question

Compared with the gametophytes of the bryophytes, the gametophytes of vascular plants are :

(1)smaller but to have larger sex organs
(2)larger but to have smaller sex organs
(3)larger and to have larger sex organs
(4)smaller and to have smaller sex organsCorrect

Answer: (4)

Solution

In bryophytes the gametophyte is the dominant, independent, leafy or thalloid phase and bears well-developed antheridia and archegonia. Along the series pteridophytes - gymnosperms - angiosperms the sporophyte becomes dominant and elaborate while the gametophyte is progressively reduced: a small free-living prothallus

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