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The ancestor of red plants was an eel-like sea creature that lived its life in two stages. The first stage was a haploid eel that mated with another haploid and raised a single diploid child together. Once fattened, the diploid left its parents to spawn in the open ocean. Its spawn became the next generation of haploids.

Red plants began when a plicozoan sea creature acquired the genes necessary for photosynthesis through horizontal gene transfer from pink algae. They live most of their life in the diploid form but reproduce with haploid larvae that cannot photosynthesize.

One aquatic red plant species found it difficult compete with other coastal plants, but its haploid form did just fine living in the reefs as an animal. In fact, the diploid plant was nothing more than a glorified reproductive organ, a placenta to nourish the next haploid generation. Thus, the first red plant derivative was born.

Description
The ancestor of red plants was an eel-like sea creature that lived its life in two stages. The first stage was a haploid eel that mated with another haploid and raised a single diploid child together. Once fattened, the diploid left its parents to spawn in the open ocean. Its spawn became the next generation of haploids.

Red plants began when a plicozoan sea creature acquired the genes necessary for photosynthesis through horizontal gene transfer from pink algae. They live most of their life in the diploid form but reproduce with haploid larvae that cannot photosynthesize.

One aquatic red plant species found it difficult compete with other coastal plants, but its haploid form did just fine living in the reefs as an animal. In fact, the diploid plant was nothing more than a glorified reproductive organ, a placenta to nourish the next haploid generation. Thus, the first red plant derivative was born.