The diagram shows the life cycle of a fern. What does stage 2 show?
O A. A gamete-producing fern plant is flat and shaped like a heart.
B. A zygote forms when a sperm fertilizes an egg cell.
C. A spore grows into a mature gamete producing plant.
D. A mature spore producing fern plant has fronds and produces

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the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.