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100

This is the male part of the flower.

What is the stamen?

100

 This is the part of the pistil that collects the pollen.

What is the stigma?

100

 In this type of reproduction sperm and egg cells unite.

What is sexual?

100

I am fruits produced by plants of the grass family.  

What are grains?

100

 This is the chief factor in determining when a plant flowers.

What is length of day and night?

100

This cereal grain feeds more people than any other.

What is rice?

200

 This is the female part of the flower.

What is the pistil?

200

 This is the swollen base of the pistil.

What is the ovary?

200

This occurs when a plant's stamen pollinates its own stigma.  

What is self-pollination?

200

My fruits consist of a pod enclosing several seeds.

What are legumes?

200

This is the first step in the process of germination.

What is the seed begins to absorb water?

200

These types of flowers have bracts instead of leaves.

What are incomplete flowers.

300

 This part of a flower covers and protects the rest of the flower during development.

What is a sepal?

300

 These are the future seeds containing the egg cells.

What are the ovules?

300

 These are the reproductive cells such as egg cells and sperm cells.

What are gametes?

300

These fruits consist of a seed enclosed in a hard relatively thick shell, like acorns.

What are nuts?

300

This part of a seed’s embryo develops into the new plant’s root system.

What is the radicle?

300

This structure of a plant embryo contains stored food to supply the energy needed for sprouting.

What are cotyledons?

400

This part of the flower produces pollen.

What is the anther?

400

 This is the stalk-like part of the pistil that connects the stigma to the ovary.

What is the style?

400

A fully developed fruit on a plant indicates this has happened.  

What is an ovary has ripened?

400

My fruits are fleshy and juicy throughout.

What are berries?

400

This tissue surrounds and nourishes A developing plant embryo.

What is the endosperm?

400

My fruits have an outer fleshy layer and an inner woody layer called a stone.

What are drupes?

500

This part of the flower consists of a filament and the anther.

 What is the stamen?

500

  this is the special stem or flower stalk.

 What is the pedicel?

500

After pollination occurs this is formed as the first step in fertilization.

What is the pollen tube?

500

My fruits consist of an outer fleshy layer and an inner papery core.

What are pomes?

500

The wind is an example of this type of dispersal.

 What is agent?

500

This scientist's work resulted in two plants that could be used to produce hundreds of household products.

Who is Dr. George Washington Carver?