Vocabulary
When an pollen cell and ovule combine, what happens?
Fertilization
The female part of a flower
The pistil
The pollen is made here, which is the male part of a plant
The anther
Plants that cannot transport water are called______________.
Nonvascular plants.
Reproduction that does not require male and female cells
Asexual reproduction
The male part of a flower
The stamen
A bee lands on a plant, and leaves the pollen on the ________, which is the female part of the flower.
What is the "Sticky stigma"
When pollen is moved from the male reproductive organ to the female reproductive organ on a different flower, it is _________ .
called cross-pollination
Ferns reproduce and grow from __________.
Spores.
meiosis is involved in ____________ reproduction
sexual reproduction
Brightly colored part of a flower that is meant to attract insects
Petals
What are two differences between angiosperms and gymnosperms?
Angiosperms have seeds in fruit and Gymnosperms have seeds in cones. Angiosperms produce flowers and Gymnosperms produce cones.
What are the different pollinators?
Water, wind, birds, insects and other animals
The way in which spores reproduce
Assexual reproduction
After fertilization, this plant produces fruit
A flowering plant? (Angiosperm)
The part of a flower in which ovules are found.
The ovary
The pollen grain goes down the ____________ to fertilize in the ovary.
pollen tube
How are seeds different from spores?
They are bigger, multicellular and contain stored food for the plant.
Plants that can transport water are called ________________.
Vascular plants.
When a new plant starts to grow from a seed, it is called _________.
Germination
Contains an pollen tube and a sticky tip on female part
The stigma
The ovary grows into _____________.
The seed
The three female components of a flower
The ovary, style, and stigma
What is a monocot and what is a dicot? What is a cotyledon?
Both are vascular plants. Monocots have only one cotyledon and Dicots have two. A cotyledon is a special seed leaf for the plant that contains stored food.