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    Antheridium (redirect from Antheridia)
    antherozoids or sperm). The plural form is antheridia, and a structure containing one or more antheridia is called an androecium. Androecium is also...
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    antheridia and archegonia occur on the same plant and those in which they occur on different plants. The term monoicous may be used where antheridia and...
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    (producing antheridia and hence sperm) or female (producing archegonia and hence egg cells). Monoicous: each individual gametophyte produces both antheridia and...
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    monoecious species, the antheridia and oogonia are always found on the same filament. In macrandous dioecious species, the antheridia and oogonia are produced...
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  • away from the antheridia, which are normally produced on the top side of the thallus, and swim in the film of water to the antheridia where they fertilize...
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    Haploid gametes are produced in antheridia (male) and archegonia (female) by mitosis. The sperm released from the antheridia respond to chemicals released...
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    The sex organs of the green algae Chara are the male antheridia (red) and female archegonia (brown)...
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    sperm-producing ones are called antheridia (singular antheridium) and the egg-producing ones archegonia (singular archegonium). Antheridia and archegonia occur on...
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    gametangia are most commonly called antheridia. They produce sperm cells that they release for fertilization. Antheridia producing non-motile sperm (spermatia)...
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    organs. The male organs are known as antheridia (singular: antheridium) and produce the sperm cells. Clusters of antheridia are enclosed by a protective layer...
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    (venter) down which the male sperm swim. The male organs are known as antheridia (sing. antheridium) and are enclosed by modified leaves called the perigonium...
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    involves sperm from antheridia on the male plant fertilizing an ovum (egg cell) in the archegonium of a female plant. The antheridia and archegonia are...
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    reproduction of an oospore is the result of contact between hyphae of male antheridia and female oogonia; these spores can overwinter and are known as resting...
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    3–10 mm long and 2–8 mm broad. The prothallus produces gametes by means of: Antheridia: Small spherical structures that produce flagellate sperm. Archegonia:...
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  • contrast to the male antheridia which are elongate and contain several nuclei. In heterothallic species, the oogonia and antheridia are located on hyphal...
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    in algal and many plant gametophytes are produced in male gametangia (antheridia) via mitotic division. In flowering plants, sperm nuclei are produced...
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    radiating arms of female gametophores (left) protect archegonia that produce eggs. Male gametophores (right) are topped with antheridia that produce sperm....
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    tissue of considerable size, and bears both the male and female organs (antheridia and archegonia). They are more commonly distributed vegetatively, though...
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  • water, mineral nutrients and nitrogen. Antheridia and archegonia are often clustered. A cluster of antheridia is called an androecium while a cluster...
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    as archegonia (singular archegonium) and the male organs are known as antheridia (singular antheridium). Both kinds of organs develop just below the surface...
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    corresponding terms for the male parts of those plants are clusters of antheridia within the androecium. Flowers that bear a gynoecium but no stamens are...
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  • potentially bisexual (have the ability to produce both archegonia and antheridia). The first study regarding antheridiogen was published by Walter Döpp...
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    Polytrichum Male gametophytes bearing antheridia Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Bryophyta Class: Polytrichopsida Order: Polytrichales...
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    gametangia (sex organs, female archegonia and male antheridia). If both archegonia and antheridia occur on the same plant, it is called monoecious. If...
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  • a male gametophore, a specialized, stalked structure that bears the antheridia. antherode A sterile anther of a staminode. anthesis 1.  (of a flower)...
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    branches. In these conceptacles oogonia and antheridia are produced and after meiosis the oogonia and antheridia are released. Fertilisation follows and the...
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  • smooth walls containing thick-walled oospores, as well as paragynous antheridia. Aghighi, Sonia; Hardy, Giles E. St. J.; Scott, John K.; Burgess, Treena...
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    reproduction begins with the production of male and female gametangium, antheridia and oogonium respectively. These unite and fuse together via fertilization...
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    assumed its active condition and begins to grow. In Asterella, the first antheridia were mature in about two weeks. This early development of the reproductive...
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    globule or antheridium (male) and nucule or archegonium (female). The antheridia and archegonia may occur on separate plants (dioicy), together on the...
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