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Message: [QUOTE="Oliver Buckle, post: 270504, member: 12649"] Evolution tends to fill in all the possibilities, and plants have been around a long time, they have had a lot longer to evolve than animals. They start off as little single cells wit a single strand of DNA that split into two cells, each also with a strand of DNA, then they start lining up next to each other and joining together and suddenly there is a cell with two strands of DNA. That grows and develops into something like a liverwort which has two different generations. One is a thing that pushes up into the air and releases spores which have one strand of DNA . That makes a sort of flat leaf hat develops two 'sexed' spots on it, they move across the leaf, come together and make the two strand generation that sends up the spore spike. Then it moves on to angiosperms and all that multiple generation stuff still happens, but just as a few cells inside the flower. The two strand DNA has mainly taken over, it is the apple tree and seeds, but the apple around the seeds is a side product which has THREE strands of DNA, that makes it lots more mutable and it will evolve quicker. Give it a few hundred million years and all that two strand stuff that makes the tree will be just a couple of cells in the reproductive process, like the single DNA strand cells that used to be the main plant became single DNA strand, single cell sex cells. The three strand DNA flesh of the apple will evolve to be the main plant. [/QUOTE]

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