Plant Reproduction Terminology

4. reproductive structure in sexually reproducing plants that serves to attract pollinators; often referred to as a blossom
5. movement or spread of seeds away from the parent plant
7. joining pieces of two different plants so that they will grow as one plant, often with characteristics desired by humans
8. reproductive structure in plants such as firs and evergreens that contains seeds; think "conifers"
10. the earliest form of a full plant
14. the process of transferring male reproductive cells from one plant to the female reproductive parts of another plant

1. refers to plants that perform their entire life cycle within one growing season; do not "come back" year after year
2. part of the seed that helps to provide the developing embryo with nutrients; think of it as the earliest leaves of a plant
3. the ripened ovary of a plant that contains seeds and is often consumed by other organisms to help with seed dispersal
6. this term refers to plants that live for multiple years; they often bloom in spring and summer and die back in fall and winter, but they "come up: every year for a finite time
7. the sprouting of a seed or spore into a seedling
9. protected enclosure containing a fertilized plant ovule
11. female reproductive organ of a flower that contains ovules and will eventually turn into a fruit
12. any vehicle (but usually an particular organism such as an insect or bird) that moves pollen from one plant to another
13. tiny, grainy substance released by plants that contains male reproductive cells