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Monday, August 23, 2010

Trees can't live forever without sex, study shows

Essentially, integrating the genders is better than not...

Dr Dilara Ally and her team at the University of British Columbia, Canada, found that the fertility of clones declines with age.

This means that a tree cannot clone itself indefinitely; it must eventually sexually reproduce, or it will die.

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