Second, the governing board of directors was established with representatives from all affected constituencies: consumers, providers, employers, regulators, and industry experts. URAC is one of the fastest growing health care accreditation agencies in the world. It will continue to develop new standards for the health care system and revise existing ones to promote national standards and to ensure that all stakeholders, including consumers and providers, are protected.
pollen-the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant. microspore-smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte.
Homospory characterizes plants that produce spores that are all the same size (as in bryophytes and most seedless vascular plants). Homospory can result in bisexual gametophytes (as in ferns, pg 611) or unisexual gametophytes (male or female) as in mosses - see pg 607 in the text. Heterospory characterizes plants that produce spores of different sizes: megaspores and microspores which give rise to separate female and male gametophytes, respectively. Contrast sperm delivery in seedless plants with sperm delivery in seed plants.