04-08-2004, 12:53 AM
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All plants produce flowers or spores
In article , wrote:
True or False?
I'm gonna say false, though its been so many years since I've read about
the wide array of plant reproduction tactics that I probably couldn't
offer a coherent thesis now. I may get some of this wrong, but what comes
to mind: Algae reproduction is fantastically diverse. While many algaes
produce spores or even mobile zoospores resembling animal planktons,
others reproduce (sexually) by conjugation & division, or (asexually) by
mitosis, & some multicellular algaes merely fragment & grow new plants
from their many pieces. Some algaes use multiple reproduction tactics, but
production of spores isn't shared by all species of algaes. Some algaes
more resemble bacteria than they do higher plants.
-paghat the ratgirl
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"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
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