Sporophyte

Real World Example

Imagine you're tasked with producing a batch of cookies for a community bake sale, but you only have a single recipe card with the instructions. This situation is similar to the role of a sporophyte in a plant's life cycle, where the plant must produce spores to ensure its species continues without having a fully grown plant to start with. Just like the recipe card that acts as a blueprint to create multiple batches of cookies, the sporophyte is the diploid phase containing all the genetic instructions necessary to produce spores, which will eventually grow into new plants, continuing the cycle.