2007-01-26 13:38:09 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All of the above. Most plants (outdoors ones anyways) use a combination of wind/bugs/ sometimes even birds to aid in pollination. Some house plants (like the spider plant) do produce flowers that will become seeds, but they also produce asexually (clone themselves), If part of the flower stalk comes in contact with soil, it will root itself there and produce another plant. The thyme plant also does this. Some plants, like the Saliva divinorum plant (a member of the sage family) rarely seeds itself, although it does flower. This plant survives through human intervention (rooting from cuttings taken from parent plants).
2007-01-26 13:47:11 · answer #1 · answered by flying_centaur 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is the wind and bugs> Plants ADAPT ALSO to their environment, of course they depend on the wind, why do you think a dandelion seed has a fuzzy "parachute" to make it take off into the wind? You think Old Testament God who orders lambs throats to be slit and get off on the aroma really cares about dandelions enough to micromanage this?
Do plants have a face and a will of their own like a dog or a cat?--Do they choose what to eat like finiky bird?
Are some animals far more above the food chain than others....
really, you are reaching.
2007-01-26 21:44:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All life the biological life on this planet, from you and me to trees and bacteria all share a common chemical heritage. We are all made of the same basic elements. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Hydrogen. You should look up evolution and natural selection and get the answers. I doubt you could understand it and I don't have the time to explain natural selection in easy to understand terms. We are all connected to all other life on this tiny world. Basically, life is prolific. There are many more organisms born that the environment can support. Those organisms which, quite by accident, have those traits that allow them to survive, well survive. The traits breed true and are passed on and on.
2007-01-26 21:45:01 · answer #3 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well your question is a lil difficult to understand but to answer it fairly i'd say that yes plants to go under natual selection, the spores with the greatest lift have a greater likely hood of being carried by the wind to be re planted, and pollen with a stickier substance has a greater likelyhood of sticking to bug legs, so yeah plants to undergo natural selection.
2007-01-26 21:43:38 · answer #4 · answered by rizo_rocker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In order for natural selection to occur, there must be 3 things:
variation
replication
differential survival
Yes, plants do undergo natural selection. So do ideas. And your ideas are headed the way of the Woolly Mammoth.
2007-01-26 21:43:11 · answer #5 · answered by ivorytowerboy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking in terms of the spread of the specie of plant then there is no selection. Everything depends on man, wind, bugs and water.
2007-01-26 21:42:43 · answer #6 · answered by Ca$h 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The wind, bugs, etc., ARE natural selection!
2007-01-26 21:42:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, all organisms, but I'm not sure if it's natural selection. It's more like certain plants will have better attributes for survival in that particular environment than others.
2007-01-26 21:42:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All living things are subject to natural selection.
2007-01-26 21:41:15 · answer #9 · answered by St. Tom Cruise 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes plants have natural selection
2007-01-26 21:41:02 · answer #10 · answered by Nick F 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋