Spores

... Fungi and Insects are concerned. Neverthless, the insects are madly attracted to fungi, and I feel there is more than CO2 and hunger for fungal spores that attract these insects. The Bio textbooks only talk about stories of termintes and leaf cutting ants and one more type of organism that are ...

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... off and begin floating down our atmosphere(which would take a long long time) only to be burnt up by out UV rays. I don't see how its possible for spores etc to go through space without being ionized also. Nevertheless i suppose there is a chance.

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every plant has the gametophyte, the haploid stage that gives rise to gametes, and the sporophyte, the diploid stage that gives rise to spores. In mosses, the actual plant that you see is the gamethophyte, whereas the sporophyte is just the thing that looks somewhat like a small flower, is ...

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... and ferns its sporophyte; diploid, Im pretty thoroughly confused.. I thought they were basicly the same plant because they reproduce through spores and they are vascular, I feel bad because of the fact that next year I'll be going to college to be a floral designer/horticulturist and I want ...

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... off. I know this is far from ideal but it is probably the best option that I have left open to me, thank you for your help everyone. I think the spores of the fungi that have lower optimal growth can survive the 37C incubation from what I gather/wishful thinking (any one who has any other information ...

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