Are there "Identical Twin" plants?  George Hammond ghammond at
Sun Dec 17 07:42:04 EST 2000  NOTE: Excuse possible multiple
post... newserver technical difficulty Andrew Dalke wrote: >
>Hammond:  the question then: Is there direct evidence from crop
yield and other agricultural data on parthogenetic (asexual-
clonal) plants, which indicates a significant VARIANCE in adult
size, from which we may conclude that there is such a thing as
an "ADULT GROWTH DEFICIT" in these plants (in the actual
environment), whereby they are generally always somewhat smaller
than some "theoretical genetic maximum adult size"? And further,
from the Normal Distribution Curve for the adult size of these
(clonal) plants, can we ESTIMATE the "theoretical genetic size"
of the plant, statistically.... by for instance assuming that it
must be near  "2-Standard Deviations" above the mean clonal
size? > That question isn't very interesting.    > Because of
variations in the environment (soil, water, light, pests, >
etc.) there will be variat