Assertion: fern's cycle | /r/CapableOf | precede spore production
Facets:
value: immediately
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In fact, vegetative reproduction probably accounts for the bulk of fern plants in the world; the sexual cycle, including spores and independent gametophytes, is probably important primarily in invading new habitats, extending the plant’s geographic range, and creating ever so slight variations through rearrangement of the genetic material during meiotic cell division immediately preceding spore production.