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What is alternation of generations?

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  1. (biology) metagenesis
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These probably had an isomorphic alternation of generations and were probably filamentous.
The alternation between haploid gametophyte and diploid sporophyte phases, known as alternation of generations, occurs in all multi-cellular plants.
The life cycle of pteridophytes exhibits an alternation of generations between gametophytes and sporophytes.
The alternation of generations illustrates an important principle, namely that cell lineages arising from single parental cells containing the same genetic potentiality may pursue mutually exclusive developmental patterns.
Like all land plants, they have a life cycle referred to as alternation of generations, characterized by alternating diploid sporophytic and haploid gametophytic phases.
At the same time there was the alternation of generations concerning the lead of the enterprise: Marius Haberthür and Fritz Kasper faced the new challenges vigorously with a clear entrepreneurial concept.

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