The Plants & The Bees: Plant Reproduction – CrashCourse Biology #38

Hank gets into the dirty details about vascular plant reproduction: they use the basic alternation of generations developed by nonvascular plants 470 million years ago, but they’ve tricked it out so that it works a whole lot differently compared to the way it did back in the Ordovician swamps where it got its start. Here’s how the vascular plants (ferns, gymnosperms and angiosperms) do it.

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Table of Contents
1) Sporophyte Dominance 01:55
2) Ferns 02:14
3) Gymnosperms 03:35
4) Angiosperms 05:33
5) Truth or Fail: Fruit Edition! 08:28

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