AI have to amend my statement. Plants occasionally speciate by polyploidy, doubling their chromosomes in one generation.
Nearly everything we eat is a result of a polyploidy event within human history.
Because chromosome doubling is so common in plants, you don't have such a severe problem of mutant individuals finding mates.
Except, ironically, in the plants we cultivate for food. They can't mate successfully without human intervention.
Except, ironically, in the plants we cultivate for food. They can't mate successfully without human intervention.
Ironic is NOT the word I would have chosen.
Ironic is NOT the word I would have chosen.