Algae: Life cycles
Following types of life histories are found in algae: (a) Haplontic Monophasic: It is a primitive life cycle. In this case, vegetative plant body remains haploid. Gametes are produced by mitosis and fuse to form diploid zygote. First division in zygote is meiosis. It forms haploid vegetative body. Thus zygote is the only diploid stage […]