SO ENDS this snippet into the complicated reproductive strategies of plants. Plants evolved from aquatic single celled algae, and transitioned onto dry land, where sperm needed protection against drying during dispersal, and thus pollen was born. Dry land was also a harsher environment, so a quiescent protected stage in the life cycle was born. And even within plants as a group, enormous reproductive variation is seen.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022