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The Plant That Copies Itself

Rhynchospora tenuis is a small plant from Brazil. It is also called the Brazilian beak-sedge. This plant reproduces sexually, but its young plants are exactly the same as the mother. An international research team studied this. They found that the plant completely lacks a genetic mixing process. This process normally happens during sexual reproduction. DNA is the information inside a…

Rewritten with AI from facts reported by Max Planck Society. Read the original for the full report.