Archive for January 18th, 2008
Plant sex…Its really wild
Friday, January 18th, 2008Flowering plants have evolved one of the most complex and “sexiest” life cycles on earth. In fact, they have “double fertilization” involving two sperm rather than the usual one. In a mature seed, the embryo originates from a zygote formed by the fusion of sperm #1 with an egg inside the embryo sac. Sperm #2 […]
