Meiosis reduces the number of chromosomes. However, this may occur at different points in the life cycles of animals, plants, and fungi. Which of the following statements is not an accurate description of these life cycles?

a. In animals, the haploid stage consists of only the gametes.
b. In plants, there is both a diploid and a haploid multicellular form.
c. In plants, the spore is a multicellular diploid form.
d. In fungi, the dominant form is usually haploid.

Option-C

Explanation:

The process of meiosis results in four cells with a reduced number of ploidy level. The process of meiosis takes place in mostly all the organism with haplo-diplontic life cycle patterns as they help in the production of haploid cells.

In animal cells, the meiosis is involved in the process of gametogenesis or the formation of gametes only as the somatic cells divide by the mitosis.

The plant groups from the multicellular haploid dominant gametophyte and diploid sporophyte. The dominant phase of the life cycle in the fungi is the haploid phase.

In the plants, since the sporophyte plant produced haploid spores from the diploid cell as a result of the meiosis and spore is not a multicellular diploid form, therefore, the Option-C is the correct answer.

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