What is the function of the spores?

Answer 1

Spores are like the seeds in flowering trees and conifers except they are smaller and many thousand can be released in one spore sac. The spores enable a plant to grow again but only ferns, mosses and liverworts have spores.

Answer 2

A spore is a reproductive structure, some of which are adapted for dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavorable conditions. The spores of seed plants, however, are produced internally, and it is larger structures derived from the spores that disperse (the megaspores are formed within the ovules, and the microspores later give rise to pollen grains). Spores form part of the life cycles of many bacteria, plants, algae, fungi and some protozoa.

Fungi reproduce asexually by forming spores. Spores are small and light, and can be carried by wind or water to far away place. They are also dormant, and can survive long period of time. When the condition is favorable, that is, when there are water and nutrients, the spores develop into new hyphae.

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Answer 3

Spores germinate and give rise to gametophytes. The gametes are produced in the reproductive parts of these gametophytes. The union of male and female gametes result into a new zygote which develops into a new organism. Thus spores function in completing the life cycle of organisms. Spores also meant to overcome unfavorable conditions of growth.

Answer 4

The function of spores is to allow bacteria to survive unfavourable conditions. In ideal conditions they reproduce rapidly. When conditions deteriorate they form highly resistant spores to survive until conditions become more suitable.