Male and female gametophytes are independent and free-living in:
Mustard
Castor
Pinus
Sphagnum
Bryopsida / Mosses -
Gamatophytic plant body is thalloid protonema and leafy with obliquely septate rhizoids and elaters absent in sporophytic stage.
- wherein
Eg. Sphagnum, Funaria
Haplo-diplontic life cycle -
Sporophyte and gametophyte both are photosynthetic and free living.
- wherein
Eg All bryophytes and pteridophytes some brown algae (Laminaria). Ectocarpus, some green algae (ulva and cladophora)
Option 1)
Mustard
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Option 2)
Castor
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Option 3)
Pinus
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Option 4)
Sphagnum
This is correct option