Evolution is in progress. 3.As we survey the living members of the plant kingdom there is a tendency to think in terms of primitive and advanced groups and that one group represents the ancestor of another: a moss evolved into a fern which evolved into a conifer and so on until we reach the flowering plants. ... One cell in the sporangium grows and then goes through meiosis, producing four haploid megaspores. This megaspore continues to grow, and its nucleus divides by mitosis three times, resulting in one large cell with eight haploid nuclei. ... Seeds that are randomly positioned when plante...

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For example, self-proclaimed European witches claimed that a "small blue or red puncture, sometimes a larger mark depicting the foot of a hare, or body of a toad, symbolized the connection of the wearer with devil worship" (Hambly, p. 45, 1925). ... Fern stalks were used when eating to avoid touching the food with hands, and any gourd the taboo person drank from could never be used again. ...

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Important Facts the smallest unit of life is the cell instructions for development are contained in DNA collectively, all of the chemical processes in a cell are called metabolism producers often obtain energy from the sun homeostasis refers to the ability to maintain a constant internal environment cells in domains archaea and eubacteria lack nucleii plants are multicellular producers an educated guess might be called a hypothesis science is based on evidence philosophy is not a step in the scientific method an atom is the smallest unit of substance that retains the properties of the subst...

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