After we did the Fruit Lab, I had a vegetarian student tell me she was never going to look at food the same way again! eat meat ... eat sex organs ...
*giggle*
It's not so much that the genetics are weird -- and there's so much that we've learned since I actually *had* genetics -- this ain't yo momma's genetics any more! They think that most plants are probably of hybrid origin (so much for the Biological Species Concept!) things like Oaks and Violets are *very* promiscuous!
Octaploids? X-Men, definitely. That works very nicely. Triploids? I'd have to think about that. Triploid plants *can* reproduce -- it doesn't happen very often -- and it's usually a case of autopoloploidy so the offspring is then hexaploid ... There's a Japanese Trillium that's like that.
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Date: 2007-02-24 06:52 pm (UTC)*giggle*
It's not so much that the genetics are weird -- and there's so much that we've learned since I actually *had* genetics -- this ain't yo momma's genetics any more! They think that most plants are probably of hybrid origin (so much for the Biological Species Concept!) things like Oaks and Violets are *very* promiscuous!
Octaploids? X-Men, definitely. That works very nicely. Triploids? I'd have to think about that. Triploid plants *can* reproduce -- it doesn't happen very often -- and it's usually a case of autopoloploidy so the offspring is then hexaploid ... There's a Japanese Trillium that's like that.