Michael T. Bacon, Ph.D. on Nostr: npub1zdp33…2vqv8 npub1hw23s…2f35q The gametophytes of ferns really make me think ...
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The gametophytes of ferns really make me think out what haploid and inter-"individual" cells in other organisms actually are. Like, a fern gametophyte is a form of a plant that's still fully a fern, it's just, different. So what are sperm and ova? They're alive. They're individual. They're human. They're just really, really different than our multicellular for. But are they not, in a way, all human lives?
The gametophytes of ferns really make me think out what haploid and inter-"individual" cells in other organisms actually are. Like, a fern gametophyte is a form of a plant that's still fully a fern, it's just, different. So what are sperm and ova? They're alive. They're individual. They're human. They're just really, really different than our multicellular for. But are they not, in a way, all human lives?