# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 959
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/959 "2020-11-27T13:38:36Z")
Not quite stumbled across, but with this post > [@Does the amount of nutrition, scale with the size of the fruit?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-the-amount-of-nutrition-scale-with-the-size-of-the-fruit/926427/20): > > Way back in 7th grade general science class (circa 1965) we learned about “alternation of generations” in which plants, most visibly in lower species like ferns and mosses, alternate between sporophyte and gametophyte generations. It was mentioned that this pattern continues to exist in all plant life, even the more highly evolved forms – it’s just that one one the generations has become by far the most dominant and visible, and the other has become reduced to the point of being nearly vestigia… @Senegoid taught me about the existence of “alternation of generations”. Which turns out to be a really cool / weird feature of plant reproduction. We’re surrounded by the darn things, outnumbered by them, utterly dependent on their collective health, and yet I know so little about how they work. But I know more today than yesterday. Now to see if I can remember it past tomorrow. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674)._