Plants are classified as annuals, biennials or perennials based on their life cycles. Biennials, like foxglove, have a vegetative year followed by a flowering year. Perennials, including woody shrubs ...
Longwood Gardens has been on high alert for a week with extended hours and a live camera streaming a giant corpse flower. While the flower hasn’t bloomed yet, the rare plant has been growing. One ...
Evolution, Vol. 71, No. 2 (FEBRUARY 2017), pp. 215-226 (12 pages) Many organisms spend a significant portion of their life cycle as haploids and as diploids (a haploid–diploid life cycle). However, ...