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Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza), a member of the order Polypodiales, in Olympic National Forest, Washington. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service)
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Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides). (Photo by James H. Miller, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service)
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The sensitive fern (Onoclea sensibilis), a representative of the Polypodiales. (After W. W. Robbins, T. E. Weier, and C. R. Stocking, Botany: An Introduction to Plant Science, 3d ed., Wiley, New York, 1964)
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Types of steles in the Polypodiales: (a) Protostele. (b) Amphiphloic siphonostele. (c) Ectophloic siphonostele. (d) Dictyostele with central pith surrounded by xylem and phloem in the form of discrete vascular bundles; bands of parenchyma cells…
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Life history of a fern: (1) the fern plant, or sporophyte, bearing sori, or clusters of sporangia, on its leaves; (2) a sporangium; (3) a tetrad of young spores; (4) the four mature spores that have come from the tetrad shown in part 3; (5) a spore…
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Diagram of section through a fern leaf, showing details of a sorus. (After W. W. Robbins, T. E. Weier, and C. R. Stocking, Botany: An Introduction to Plant Science, 3d ed., Wiley, New York, 1964)
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Eastern marsh fern (Thelypteris palustris): sori on the pinnules of a fertile frond. (Photo by Rob Routledge, Sault College, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada)
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Diagram of a fern prothallium. (After W. W. Robbins, T. E. Weier, and C. R. Stocking, Botany: An Introduction to Plant Science, 3d ed., Wiley, New York, 1964)
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Colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Schizosaccharomyces pombe yeast. This single-celled fungus is studied widely as a model organism for eukaryotic cell division. It is a rod-shaped yeast that grows by elongation at its ends, and it…
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Cell shapes of yeasts are extremely varied: (a) rectangular; (b) pear-shaped; (c) apiculate; (d) ogival; (e) spherical; (f) globose; (g) ellipsoidal (oval); (h) elongate; (i) tetrahedral.
