Parody: George Ledyard Stebbins

Scientists have shown that there is a development in polyploidy, which means that you have more than two sets of chromosomes. As polyploidy is somewhat confusing, there is two articles of explanation on this subject. I want to start by explaining gene doubling in an easier sense due to its confusion. Polyploidy can occur when organisms self-fertilize or through sexual reproduction. Through research, it's said that this process can possibly create a new species after being done. Although, scientists did not realize the importance that this process had for plant evolution. The founder of this process is a person named George Ledyard Stebbins. Stebbins is a botanical researcher from the 20th century. Since the founding of this process, many scientists have studied this subject, which explains the news of development. Scientists Douglas Soltis, Clayton Visger, and Pamela Soltis are a few people mentioned as part of the research project. ““Gene doubling has shaped the biological world more than any other process,” comments Doug Soltis. "Some might consider this an overstatement, but in the plant world, genome doubling, or …show more content…
Fowler and Levin are showing how important it is to understand and know the population size for polyploidy. “Analyses confirms that the polyploidy does often equal speciation.” Speciation isn’t easy going into this process though. In research, they say that speciation can happen more than once and that studying three groups of new species can trace back to polyploidy, showing how common this can actually be. Another thing being studied is consequences of duplication in for how the genes will evolve. Four papers, including literature review, phylogenetic, laboratory study painting, and population approach, show the diversity to answer these questions. These and other papers show that there is a comparative relationship between polyploidy and sexual systems in