Plants and Plant Reproduction: Flowers and Pollination

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  1. 2. Insect known as an excellent pollinator.
  2. 4. Something used to carry the seeds of flowering plants. Fruit can be fleshy or dry.
  3. 8. A male reproductive organ in plants that supports the anther.
  4. 9. Female reproductive organ in which egg cells are produced.
  5. 14. The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma.
  6. 16. White or coloured section of a flower.
  7. 17. The set of male reproductive organs in plants (anther and filament).
  8. 19. poll-in-ay-shun When pollen is transferred from one plant to a different plant of the same species.
  9. 21. The set of female reproductive organs in plants (ovary, style and stigma).
  10. 22. When pollen is transferred from a flower on a plant to a stigma in the same flower or to another flower on the same plant.
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  1. 1. Fusing of a male gamete with a female gamete.
  2. 3. A part of a flower that produces a sweet nectar, on which some animals like to feed.
  3. 5. A pollen ______ is a tunnel made for the male gamete to reach the ovule.
  4. 6. A leaf-like structure that protects a flower bud.
  5. 7. Part of the female reproductive organs in a plant. It is where pollen lands.
  6. 9. Contains an egg cell in plants. An ovary contains ovules.
  7. 10. em-bree-O The tiny new life that grows by cell division from a fertilised egg cell.
  8. 11. The container for the male gamete in plants.
  9. 12. Moving air that can carry pollen grains from plant to plant.
  10. 13. Cell ________ is the splitting of a cell to form two identical cells.
  11. 15. Part of the female reproductive organs in a plant that connects thestigma to the ovary.
  12. 18. There is competition between organisms that need the same things as each other. We say that they compete for those things.
  13. 20. A male reproductive organ in plants that produces pollen grains.