Thallophyte vs Spermatophyte - What's the difference?
thallophyte | spermatophyte |
(botany) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
* 1994 , Estrelita A. Madriaga, Anthony Lee, Felicitas B. Ventura, Orlando A. Oronce (coordinator), Biology: Science and Technology II ,
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* 1999 , R. G. Hermann, The Chloroplast: Part of the Integrated Genetic System of the Plant Cell'', Joan H. Argyroudi-Akoyunoglou, Horst Senger (editors), ''The Chloroplast: From Molecular Biology to Biotechnology ,
In botany terms the difference between thallophyte and spermatophyte
is that thallophyte is any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta while spermatophyte is any plant that bears seeds rather than spores.thallophyte
English
(wikipedia thallophyte)Noun
(en noun)page 347,
- They[algae, fungi and mosses] lack the vascular tissues; thus, they are called thallophytes'. Algae are '''thallophytes''' with chlorophyll.Fungi are ' thallophytes without chlorophyll.
page 422,
- In general, the usefulness of the thallophytes' as Hg bioindicators was limited by their sporadic occurrence in the forest environment. Because of the importance of the ' thallophytes as components of the food chain, however, several samples from different groups (summarized in Table 2) were collected for comparison with values reported in the literature.
page 66,
- Fossile(sic) records along with molecular, cytological and morphological phylogenetic work favour a single origin of land plants from charophycean thallophytes , and indicate that several major lineages of vascular plants had evolved more than 400 million years ago.