Magical Sailor Fuku

The largest one, at that, but not the only one. Aspens in general seem to share the feature of those huge root systems shared by all the 'sprouts'.

I think I first heard about them when I went to Pike's Peak several years ago, and they noted that the Aspens there are really just one big organism. Neat.

Nothing says "I R hive N U R will B ded" like Pando. ;p

Aye--not the only one, but still mighty impressive, t'me at least...

@Nikkou: Wait--'U R will B ded'? I think I am sensing bad grammar of some kind...Hm...

*Shifty eyes*

Just quoting the Pando, is all.

Indeed. It may help if you take some ginkgo biloba. It is good teacher. ;p

And how would it be different from the artificial medicines people pop as pills all of the time? ;p

And make our brain shrink? ;p

If only this new bacteria came with the kind of sexual side-effects I'd prefer to have.

Asexuality doesn't necessarily mean mitosis. XD A female of the sexual persuasion already has all but one thing to reproduce on her own: another gamete for zygosis. Well, technically, females do have two gametes... But for a reason that I don't understand, only one ovary produces an ova at a time, normally. But if they both produced at the same time... It's not a far stretch with science, and a bit more understanding, to make it possible.

Aside from that, there are sexual species that are able to reproduce asexually (some lizards is all that I can remember right now), so it's not even impossible, naturally-speaking. On the plus side for humans, if we were able to utilize both ovaries (with changes to the ova, no doubt, since they're accustomed to receiving sperm), we'd manage asexuality and still maintain genetic diversity (if, by my understanding, each ova is not a copy of one half of the female's genome.)

Still, you're too late about the Nikkou clones. Millions of them lurk in shadows. And one of them conquered MSF this one time. ;/

True--whenever I think of asexual reproduction though, I think of mitosis first and foremost, for whatever reason, followed closely by Meiosis...
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*Runs off to create a Nikkou-buster squad!*

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On the other hand, these things can apparently survive nuclear blasts...

How do they know that?