As far as I remember from Biology, ferns such as bracken are the haploid type, and they are great big strong things. The diploid stage of ferns is a tiny insignificant thing about an inch across.
Dang, knew I should have stayed awake in class. Didn't mosses also have them? The haploid growing out of the diploid (or was it the other way around?)? And it seems to me there was a third I never could remember for the test.
Of course, humans
also have a haploid stage - its called sperm and eggs, but they don't have such an independent life as the ferns do.
Right, which made me wonder about the overall difficulties of this from a genetic engineering POV (but nothing a good writer couldn't overcome [actually, I suppose they only need someone to look at Cally's DNA and say, "Hey, haploid. Weird."]).
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