SW StudyWalks

Biology  /  Bio 1001  ·  Atom · ~20 seconds

The Haplodiplontic Life Cycle

Video not yet published
to the StudyWalks catalog
State

In a haplodiplontic life cycle, an organism alternates between a multicellular diploid sporophyte and a haploid gametophyte, meiosis and mitosis each producing one generation.

Show

A plant's diploid sporophyte produces haploid spores by meiosis, and those spores grow by mitosis into a haploid gametophyte.

Watch for

This haplodiplontic cycle — alternation of generations — is not a haplontic or diplontic cycle with an extra step.