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Reflections of the Pokémon Anime, Part 3 (view source)
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There appear to be two types of grass Pokémon: the animal types, and the plant types. Pokémon such as {{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Chikorita}}, {{p|Treecko}}, {{p|Celebi}}, {{p|Lotad}} and {{p| | There appear to be two types of grass Pokémon: the animal types, and the plant types. Pokémon such as {{p|Bulbasaur}}, {{p|Chikorita}}, {{p|Treecko}}, {{p|Celebi}}, {{p|Lotad}} and {{p|Tropius}} appear to be animals with symbiotic relationships with plant cells, supplementing their herbivorous diet with energy from photosynthesis. Others, such as {{p|Oddish}}, {{p|Sunkern}}, {{p|Bellsprout}}, {{p|Hoppip}}, {{p|Cacnea}} and {{p|Roselia}}, on the other hand, appear to be plants with faces. Perhaps the animal-like grass Pokémon lived in regions poorly suited to serving as nutrition, so they incorporated algae and perhaps other, more parasitic plant tissue to gain energy from photosynthesis. Or, it could just be possible that parasitic plants seeded certain herbivorous animals and mixed their genomes with the genomes of the host creature. In any case, animal-plant symbiosis (for whatever reason) seems to be the most likely method of creating one's own Bulbasaur. | ||
The plant-like Pokémon, on the other hand, takes a little more stretching. [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/plants/plantmodel.html Michael Davidson] provides a look at plant cells and notes that they lack the formations necessary for locomotion. However, it does not take a great leap of imagination to see a plant in a hostile environment, especially those descended from {{p|Mew}} (who will be discussed in part two of this essay), retaining the common ancestor's animalistic organelles, while keeping a more flexible version of the cell wall to accommodate greater movement. It may be necessary at times to use Mew's almost stem-cell capacity as the origin of Pokémon as a catch-all for improbable Pokémon abilities or physiologies. Certainly the plant-like grass Pokémon would fall into this category. | The plant-like Pokémon, on the other hand, takes a little more stretching. [http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/cells/plants/plantmodel.html Michael Davidson] provides a look at plant cells and notes that they lack the formations necessary for locomotion. However, it does not take a great leap of imagination to see a plant in a hostile environment, especially those descended from {{p|Mew}} (who will be discussed in part two of this essay), retaining the common ancestor's animalistic organelles, while keeping a more flexible version of the cell wall to accommodate greater movement. It may be necessary at times to use Mew's almost stem-cell capacity as the origin of Pokémon as a catch-all for improbable Pokémon abilities or physiologies. Certainly the plant-like grass Pokémon would fall into this category. | ||