Life Cycle Patterns Human, Moss, Fern, Flowering Plant, Comparison & Asexual Fertilization, Mitosis and Meiosis
Note: In The Following Life Cycles, Everything Above The Line Is Diploid (2n) & Everything Below The Red Line Is Haploid (n) Generalized Life Cycle Pattern For Animals & Plants
Human Life Cycle
Moss Life Cycle
Fern Life Cycle
Flowering Plant Life Cycle
Life Cycle Comparison
Vegetative Reproduction In Plants Many species of plants reproduce asexually without gametes. They simply clone themselves by the formation of bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes, runners, turions, plantlets and "pups." In the duckweed family (Lemnaceae) daughter plants are produced vegetatively in budding pouches. Each "mother plant" produces up to a dozen daughter plants during its lifetime of 1-2 (or more) months. The daughter plants repeat the budding history of their clonal parents, resulting in exponential growth. It has been estimated that the Indian Wolffia microscopica may reproduce asexually by budding every 30 hours under optimal growing conditions. At the end of 4 months this would result in about 1 nonillion plants (1 followed by 30 zeros) occupying a total volume roughly equivalent to the planet earth. Some of these methods are discussed under vegetative terminology at the following links:
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