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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Vascular plants exhibit alternation of generation. What is alternation of generation?

OpenStudy (ramirocruzo):

Alternation of generations, also called Metagenesis, or Heterogenesis, is the alternation of a sexual phase and an asexual phase in the life cycle of an organism. The two phases, or generations, are often morphologically, and sometimes chromosomally, distinct.

OpenStudy (ramirocruzo):

Sorry thats for scenario of Coelenterates.....In Plants it refers to the alteration between haploid & diploid generations i.e. Sporophyte & Gametophyte...

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