Assertion: moss sporophyte | /r/HasProperty | free-living
Facets:
value: thereafter
type: TEMPORAL
value: unlike bryophytes
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Unlike bryophytes, fern sporophytes are free-living and only briefly dependent on the maternal gametophyte.
text: In contrast to bryophytes , in which the sporophyte is nutritionally dependent on the gametophyte during its entire existence, the fern sporophyte is dependent on the gametophyte for nutrition only during the early phase of its development; thereafter, the fern sporophyte is free-living.