Ferns have a brilliant way of reproducing. They don’t produce seeds like flowering plants, but instead grow a completely new, independent plant called a gametophyte. If you look on the underside of ...

After the successful development of a new totally independent organism, the other life cycle of the fern, known as ...

The ferns contain the nitrogenous base sequence GAGA in their DNA, and a brightly colored stage of the ferns’ reproductive cycle, called the gametophyte, is reminiscent of one of Gaga's elaborate ...