Lucien Alperstein

And finally, microbes are...

non-normative in how they reproduce.

They can reproduce sexually, they can clone themselves asexually, and they can also pass on and swap genetic information without reproducing at all.

Some fungi also have a huge number of sexual types, both macroscopic fungi, things like mushrooms that you recognise, but also things like my favourite, Basidiomycete, Oostelagomatis or Cornsmut.

This smutty delicacy, and I have actually tried it and it's delicious, has over 50 mating types or kind of sexes.

They live as free living individuals in soil, but then when they infect corn, they go into what's called a filamentous or kind of like...

long, skinny, infectious state, infect the corn, and then fill these corn cells with billions and billions of microscopic and actually quite delicious fungal spores.

That's it for microbes.

To wrap up, I'd just like to say that successfully raising young is essential to a species' survival, and parents can be queer for all manner of reasons.

The animal kingdom is many things, but it is definitely not heterosexual.

And on that, I'll pass over to Caitlin.