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spore

The reproductive cell in cryptogams (plants and plant-like organisms that lack flowers and do not reproduce by seeds) which in function corresponds to a seed but is haploid (has half a set of chromosomes) - unlike a seed that is a product of sexual reproduction and has a full set of chromosomes

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