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First plants to reproduce bisexually
It is surprising how many people are not aware, even today, that plants reproduce bisexually in
many species. In
fact the plants have been at it a long time. Algae first began to reproduce bisexually around
1,000,000,000 years
ago. Considering that man has been copulating for a million years or so, the various species of
algae score high
on persistence. A freshwater algae (Ulothrix) is often used to illustrate the origin of gametes,
i.e. the origin of
sex cells. The elongated filament-body of the algae generates a number of small spores which
have lost the
capacity to germinate (as they do in asexual reproduction): the spores come together and fuse
to form a new
individual - one of the simplest instances of the sex act.