Need Help understanding plant Pollen and Spore terminology?

Can the biologist, botanist, or biology major . . . please help explain or outline or list in order the structures containing the term "spore" according to most plant life cycles. for gymnosperms to angiosperms.


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Theres the spore, the the sporangium, there a sporophyte, . . . etc. . . any tips on remembering these terms and the structures and processes that creates them?

Need Help understanding plant Pollen and Spore terminology?
It helps if you know a little bit about the origins of these words. The easiest to remember is that the "-phyte" part of sporophyte means "plant". So the sporophyte is always diploid and is the life-phase that produces spores (which are haploid). The sporangium is the container that holds and releases the spores (the "-angium" part is taken from a Greek word meaning container or vessel; it becomes "-angia" in the plural)





In some texts you will see the terms "microspore" and "megaspore". These are easier to remember because everyone knows that micro means small and mega means large. They are used for the small reproductive cells (pollen) and the relatively large ones (egg cells) in higher plants.