"Polyploidy is everywhere." - Scott Jackson

Supplementary videos

Geometry in nature: fractals and Fibonacci rabbits
Polyploidy everywhere 3:00-4:40 sugar cane, banana, cotton, cacoa, wheat, strawberry; oysters
Evolution of Y chromosome: adventures of crossing-over (HHMI)
Genetic recombination in flu virus (Note: no crossing over) (HHMI)

Extra credit readings

• 2010 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology: In Vitro Fertilization Scientific American 10/4/10
• Seedless Watermelon University of Arkansas 8/29/03
• Are Males Genetically Doomed? Futurist Mar/Apr 05
• The XX Brain and the XY Brain Psychiatric Times Aug 05

Additional material

• How many times have your cells divided to reach 100 trillion?

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