Question

Vascular plants exhibit alternation of generation. What is alternation of generation?Select one of the options below as your answer: A. The plant exhibits reduced sporophyte and dominant gametophyte alternately. B. Plant cells undergo mitosis and meiosis alternately. C. The plant exists as a diploid organism, and at other times as a haploid.

Answer 1

A multicellular sporophyte, which is diploid with 2N paired chromosomes alternates with a multicellular gametophyte, which is haploid with N unpaired chromosomes.