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What aspect of their reproduction distinguishes plants from most other organisms?

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Plants undergo alternation of generations: their life cycle alternates between a multicellular diploid sporophyte and a multicellular haploid gametophyte. Meiosis in the sporophyte produces haploid spores that grow into a multicellular gametophyte, which makes gametes; fertilization of those gametes produces a new sporophyte. Most animals lack a multicellular haploid stage (they are diplontic), producing haploid gametes directly by meiosis.