Re: Crystalline ancestry: Vegetative growth



On Feb 13, 5:59=A0pm, John Edser <ed...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:-

I am using the term "vegetative growth" to refer to propagation via
growth without reproduction.

Hi Tim,

One of the great conundrums of biology is how exactly reproduction
differs from growth. [...]

In organisms which reproduce "vegetatively", reproduction
and growth usually do not differ by very much at all.

For a useful primer on this whole topic, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetative_reproduction
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