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Content: in vascular plants, it’s the sporophyte. Why is a dominant sporophyte generation an advantage on land? All of these photos show plants of the dominant generation in their life cycle. Life Cycle of Nonvascular Plants
Nonvascular plants include mosses, liverworts, and hornworts. They are the only plants with a life cycle in which the gametophyte generation is dominant. Figure below shows the life cycle of moss. The familiar, green, photosynthetic moss plants are gametophytes. The sporophyte generation is very small and dependent on the gametophyte plant. Like other bryophytes, moss plants spend most of their life cycle as gametophytes. Find the sporophyte in the diagram.