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UNIQUE TO FLOWERING PLANTS. “Double fertilization is the defining characteristic of flowering plants. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating the fusion of one sperm with the egg and the second sperm with the central cell are largely unknown.” https://lnkd.in/dxHFh57 View in LinkedIn

ANTI-ENTROPY. “In Spencer's view, evolution is the antagonist of dissolution. His notion of dissolution is essentially what physicists call the second law of thermodynamics. According to the second law, disorder, or entropy, tends to increase in the absence of an input of energy.” https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

PLANT FERTILIZATION. “Compared with the animal kingdom, fertilization is particularly complex in flowering plants (angiosperms). Sperm cells of angiosperms have lost their motility and require transportation as a passive cargo by the pollen tube cell to the egg apparatus (egg cell and accessory synergid cells).” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015584 View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION. Herbert Spencer "defined evolution as "a change from an incoherent homogeneity to a coherent heterogeneity". https://lnkd.in/dMvAeqz View in LinkedIn

DOUBLE FERTILIZATION IN PLANTS (Dr Larry Jensen). A superb primer. Brilliant work. https://youtu.be/0UEpq1W9C_E View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE contemplates the curious phenomenon of double fertilization in flowering plants, a large group of living creatures. This is a process unlike the reproduction of animals or other plants, and appears to confer no particular competitive advantage. Perhaps it is a pure happenstance of evolution, wrought by pure accident, which survived. But, just like the mating fruit-fly where the female genes become massively lit up in short order, so also, the cross-talk and molecular chatter that accompanies the pollen tube entry is very impressive. Hardly dumb sessile creatures. View in LinkedIn

ANALOGY. “Synthetic chemistry is the ability to create and put together chemical compounds which are not found in nature; it has given us the ability not only better understand the theory of chemical phenomena, but it has also allowed us to create new materials and chemicals which are of great use to industry and technology.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

FRESH EYES. “In addition to providing new ways to study the biological phenomena associated with life here on Earth, life-as-we-know-it, Artificial Life allows us to extend our studies to the larger domain of "bio-logic" of possible life, life-as-it-could-be. (Chris G. Langton (Artificial Life II).” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

NEW BIOLOGY. “Building life from its very basic building blocks--the things we know that life requires such as an energy source--might help us in finding out the principles and characteristics of life in general. Thus we can have a broader, more diverse base of information from which we can better understand what life truly is.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn

DEFINITIONAL TRAP. “The major advantage of looking at life from this perspective is that by recreating life in a different medium, we are not limited to our own system of carbon-based life. Biology is the study of life, but on Earth we only have access to carbon-based life; and trying to define life by examining only carbon-based life is like trying to derive general principles from specific examples.” https://lnkd.in/etiQ6T7 View in LinkedIn