Why Did It Take Us So Long?
We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Zoophily: a form of pollination whereby pollen is transferred by animals
- Hydrophily: a type of pollination in which pollen is dispersed by the flow of water
- Seaweed: massive, multicellular algae
- Spermatia: a nonmotile male gamete of red alga
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