Blog #11: Get a picture of alternation of generations put it in your blog and explain how it relates to plants.

                                Alternation of generations is a term describing the life cycle of plants.  All plants meet a life cycle that takes them through both haploid and diploid generations.  The multicellular diploid plant structure is called the sporophyte, which produces spores through meiotic division.  The multicellular haploid plant structure is called the gametophyte, which is formed from the spore and give rise to the haploid gametes.  The fluctuation between these diploid and haploid stages that occurs in plants is called the alternation of generations.  The way in which the alternation of generations occurs in plants depends on the type of plant. In bryophytes, the dominant generation is haploid, so that the gametophyte comprises what we think of as the main plant. The opposite is true for tracheophytes, in which the diploid generation is dominant and the sporophyte comprises the main plant.