Fragmentation of the gametophyte also results in vegetative reproduction: each living fragment has the potential to grow into a complete gametophyte.
The Florida Legislature, prodded by the religious right, hastily passed a law authorizing the governor to order the feeding of patients in a vegetative state who lacked living wills.
We are not the green men (and green women) of myth, vegetative humans who live by the cycle of the seasons.
"For every relative of a living PVS [persistent vegetative state] patient given (probably false) hope, another is burdened with the guilt of having acquiesced in the withdrawal of treatment from someone who – he has been led to believe – may have been more alive than it seemed," he says.
They seek legislation and court decisions to deny equality to their fellow men and women, whether it be discrimination about where they can live or work, the loving relationships they pursue and the manner in which they can control their own well-being on pro-choice matters or, worse, whether they can decide when to end their lives, rather than living in a vegetative state or in agony.
The next of kin based this on their knowledge that the afflicted person would not have wanted to continue living in a vegetative state.
The only comment anyone can remember the patient making about living in a vegetative state supports her husband's decision to remove the feeding tube, thus allowing the patient to die.
Our observations corroborate results from a previous study of deer mice in which adult males living in patchy vegetative habitats were more mobile and also more often infected than adult males in dense shrub habitats (32).
If you think that markets, incentives, prizes, and entrepreneurs are the answer, you ought to be with us.' " I asked Gingrich if it was a mistake to appeal to the religious-conservative base of the Party on such issues as the fate of Terri Schiavo, a woman who was living in a persistent vegetative state.
The inmate had a "massive stroke" while behind bars and was living in a near vegetative state.
