Tom Pearce on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 npub1gu9ar…hslew Sixty years on I still remember a young biology ...

npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 (npub1zdp…vqv8) npub1gu9ar7g0s42n2n053p4z2608t02xm6w59c3vje440ed92zg5z80qyhslew (npub1gu9…slew) Sixty years on I still remember a young biology teacher explaining the sexual and asexual stages in the reproduction of ferns, with the spores producing a thallus (He made the point of emphasising that it was a "th" to a classroom of stupid giggling adolescent boys) and the then sexual stage from the thallus with motile gametes to the development of a fern. I find it fascinating to this day.