Flowers
This is the male part of the flower.
What is the stamen?
This is the part of the pistil that collects the pollen.
What is the stigma?
In this type of reproduction sperm and egg cells unite.
What is sexual?
I am fruits produced by plants of the grass family.
What are grains?
This is the chief factor in determining when a plant flowers.
What is length of day and night?
This cereal grain feeds more people than any other.
What is rice?
This is the female part of the flower.
What is the pistil?
This is the swollen base of the pistil.
What is the ovary?
This occurs when a plant's stamen pollinates its own stigma.
What is self-pollination?
My fruits consist of a pod enclosing several seeds.
What are legumes?
This is the first step in the process of germination.
What is the seed begins to absorb water?
These types of flowers have bracts instead of leaves.
What are incomplete flowers.
This part of a flower covers and protects the rest of the flower during development.
What is a sepal?
These are the future seeds containing the egg cells.
What are the ovules?
These are the reproductive cells such as egg cells and sperm cells.
What are gametes?
These fruits consist of a seed enclosed in a hard relatively thick shell, like acorns.
What are nuts?
This part of a seed’s embryo develops into the new plant’s root system.
What is the radicle?
This structure of a plant embryo contains stored food to supply the energy needed for sprouting.
What are cotyledons?
This part of the flower produces pollen.
What is the anther?
This is the stalk-like part of the pistil that connects the stigma to the ovary.
What is the style?
A fully developed fruit on a plant indicates this has happened.
What is an ovary has ripened?
My fruits are fleshy and juicy throughout.
What are berries?
This tissue surrounds and nourishes A developing plant embryo.
What is the endosperm?
My fruits have an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer called a stone.
What are drupes?
This part of the flower consists of a filament and the anther.
What is the stamen?
this is the special stem or flower stalk.
What is the pedicel?
After pollination occurs this is formed as the first step in fertilization.
What is the pollen tube?
My fruits consist of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core.
What are pomes?
The wind is an example of this type of dispersal.
What is agent?
This scientist's work resulted in two plants that could be used to produce hundreds of household products.
Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?