Hornwort

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title: Hornwort
text: Hornworts are a group of non-vascular Embryophytes constituting the division Anthocerotophyta. The common name refers to the elongated horn-like structure, which is the sporophyte. As in mosses and liverworts, hornworts have a gametophyte-dominant life cycle, in which cells of the plant carry only a single set of genetic information; the flattened, green plant body of a hornwort is the gametophyte stage of the plant. Hornworts may be found worldwide, though they tend to grow only in places that
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description: Division of non-vascular land plants with horn-shaped sporophytes
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornwort
date created: 2004-02-08T15:38:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-06T04:31:57Z
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