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21st May '13 4:29:54 PM Sellina

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* Certain species of plants, fungi, and bacteria have the power to form [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal_colony clonal colonies]] where a single ancestor can reproduce vegetatively, not sexually, to form a large population of clones.  Sometimes these clones are interconnected through roots and runners to form a [[IAmLegion single massive organism]] that is [[ExpendableClone practically immortal]].
** Most notable of these is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29 Pando]], a 100 acre large connected Quaking Aspen colony with 43,000 individuals estimated to be over [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 80,000 years old]].
*** The cloning ability was actually used to overcome the effects of climate change where the post ice age west was inhospitable for Aspen seedlings.  Without young aspens or conifers, which were both sensitive to the arid environment, to compete with, the clonal colonies came to predominate.  Some estimate that in some places Aspen have [NoSexAllowed not reproduced sexually]] for 10,000 years. 
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