What is a spore? – Plant reproduction – Biology
Fern spores on the underside of a frond When plants like moss first began to grow outside the water, about 540 million years ago, they needed a way to reproduce [...]
Fern spores on the underside of a frond When plants like moss first began to grow outside the water, about 540 million years ago, they needed a way to reproduce [...]
Cell division The very earliest photosynthesizing plants on Earth, about 3 billion years ago, had only one cell, and they reproduced the way most one-celled creatures do, by mitosis: splitting [...]
A moss-covered rock During the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago, some early plants evolved from earlier algae that could live on land, outside of the water. These plants [...]
Fish eggs: Egg evolution starts with soft eggs like these When did the first eggs evolve? The earliest living creatures made babies by dividing themselves in half, so that one [...]
A cell dividing into two cells The first reproduction One of the main ways we define whether something is alive is whether it can reproduce - if it can make a new [...]
A eukaryote cell (seen through a microscope) full of chloroplasts How do eukaryotes divide? Eukaryote cells generally reproduce themselves using a method called mitosis. When a eukaryote cell senses that there [...]
Fish eggs - eggs science project Different types of eggs This is a simple eggs science project. Check out different kinds of eggs and you'll see the difference between fish [...]