Vocabularies

2. – The stage in a plant's life cycle that begins after fertilisation and produces spores.
3. – The female reproductive cell of a plant that can fuse with a male gamete.
5. – The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a flower.
7. – The nucleus that controls the growth of the pollen tube.
9. – The part of the flower that produces and releases pollen.
10. – Spores that develop into the female gametophyte.
12. – A small spore that develops into the male gametophyte or pollen grain.
13. – To begin growing or developing, such as when a seed starts to grow.

1. – The stage in a plant's life cycle that produces male or female gametes.
3. – Male reproductive cells produced by the male gametophyte.
4. – Structures inside the ovary that can develop into seeds after fertilisation.
5. – A tube that grows from a pollen grain toward the ovule and carries the male gametes.
6. – A process in flowering plants in which two sperm cells participate in fertilisation, forming the embryo and endosperm.
8. – The diploid stage of a plant that produces spores.
11. – Tiny grains produced by the anthers that contain male reproductive cells.