None of you thought it might be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim???
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None of you thought it might be important to tell me that ferns have sperm that swim??? I just had to find all this out on my own?
And, (apparently, & no one thought to bring this up either🙄) fern plants are only one form… they have this 'other form' (tiny, ephemeral, difficult to find in the wild) alternates generations-- Fern spores don't grow into ferns! (WHAT) they grow into 'gemetophytes' (WHAT) THEN you get a fern.
Feel like I've uncovered a massive scandal.
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The development of the seed plant sporophyte can be broken down into three major stages (Figure 17.2): embryogenesis, vegetative development, and reproductive development. (...) An essential feature of this basic architecture is the presence of apical meristems at the tips of the root and shoot axes (see Figure 17.2), which are key to sustaining indeterminate patterns of vegetative growth.
"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
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Anthony Fineran (B 1981), Excited Bored, 2023
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Got to see the look on a pro-lifer’s face as I compared an embryo/zygote to cancer today, Feeling great😁
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Conversations with 'ChatGPT', Number 1
In July, 2010, I posted here an essay or opinion about “The Holy Zygote“, which I recently referred to a family member pursuant to a conversation between us. In that I have been, recently, asking many questions of the AI program ‘ChatGPT‘, mostly in the realm of philosophy and physics, I decided to ask this service the question, below. This may be the first of more questions of ChatGPT, and its…
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Both Muller and Brewer perceived eugenic implications in the work: the fertilization of a genetically "superior" human egg by a similar sperm in a test tube, and the implantation of the zygote in a third-party female – no doubt genetically inferior, but an able nurturer of the fetus.
"In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity" - Daniel J. Kevles
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You fat fucking zygote. You gross homosapien. You ancient fetus. You quirked up embryo. You mutant hybrid of egg and sperm. Never look at me again, you dumb product of meiosis. You disgust me, you dirty blastocyst.
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Stop the countdown. Abort the launch!
Following SpaceX and others in aerospace referring to aborted launches as scrubbed launches, medical abortions will now be called "scrubbed fetuses" or "scrubbed zygotes" depending on which term the scrub occurs. That should clear up a few misconceptions.
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