Reproduction & Life Cycle
5 entries in the Caulerpa serrulata compendium.
Stolon tip growthOne polyp becomes a colony, one clone at a time, along a thread of living tissue.Stolon fragmentationOne broken thread of tissue, and a whole new reef colony is already on its way.Phylloblast abscissionA colony that seeds itself one clean break at a time, outliving the rare gamble of sex.OogoniaThe quiet diploid cells from which every marine egg begins its irreversible march toward meiosis.ZygoteOne cell, one season, one fusion event—everything after is either growth or drift.
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