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Plant Evolution

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

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Plant Genetics

Plants are unique in that they can complete their reproductive cycle without water. They create a sperm that has to swim through water, just like humans and mammals. And so slowly, slowly, you get the advent of things like pollen that can be dispersed on the wind or by insects. Then that pollen opens, and no longer does a swimming sperm come out, but a pollen tube,. You know, that grows, elongates a cell, elongation into an ovary to produce fertilization.

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