The meteorite was probably 1<span>0 to 15 km (6.2 to 9.3 mi) wide</span> and affected the entire planet through a proces called "impact winter". As the name suggests, an impact winter is a period of low temperature produced by a huge cloud of ash and dust that blocks sunlight. Since sunlight is essential for plants to survive, if the sun rays are blocked by this cloud, all animals that depend on those plants (including dinosaurs) will die. The meteorite could have created such a cloud upon hitting the earth.
The characteristics that bryophytes share with algae are biflagellate motile gametes and the life cycle. The life cycle, of course, is the duration of the life of the object. Biflagellate motile gametes are made when two or more of the motile gametes fuse into a zygote.
When an ion or a molecule passes through a membrane without something facilitating, or encouraging that passage, such as a protein does. What drives it is the force of the diffusion itself instead.
