Sporophyte vs. Sporocyte

Sporophytenoun

(botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.

Sporophytenoun

In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; - opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.

Sporophytenoun

the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations

Sporophyte

A sporophyte () is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga. It develops from the zygote produced when a haploid egg cell is fertilized by a haploid sperm and each sporophyte cell therefore has a double set of chromosomes, one set from each parent.

Sporocytenoun

A cell that produces haploid spores during meiosis