Scientists found out that the female sex hormone (progesterone) first came in the plant. They thought that this could only be found in animals but they were wrong. They saw that it was like the female sex cell in plants but they weren't 100 percent sure so they didn't think anything of it at all. They later did an examination and found out that this is originally where the female sex cell was found. Pauli and colleagues were the first to find this out. They used nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy. Recently they have found 5 more progesterone steroids in plants in which they belonged to the buttercup family.
www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/02/04/first_discovery_of_the_female_sex_hormone_progesterone_in_a_plant.html
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This is pretty interesting that the first female sex hormone was found in a plant.
ReplyDeletehmmm intersting i definately would've thought it was an animal.
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