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| What is the reproductive organ of a flowering plant? | flower |
| What happens when an insect, small bird or bat visits a flower? | The pollen brushes off its body onto the stigma |
| Sexual reproduction acoording to our book is: | The production of offspring that occurs when a male sex cell joins a female sex cell. |
| What part of a flower hold pollen grains that contain make sex cells? | Anther |
| What part of the flower produces the female sex cell and becomes the seed? | Ovary |
| What is the name of the male part of the flower? | stamen |
| What is the name of the female part of the flower? | pistil |
| What part of the flower becomes the FRUIT? | ovary |
| What is the name of the STICKY part on the top of the pistil? | stigma |
| What is the first step in producing seeds? | The transfer of pollen grains to the male part of the female part of the flower |
| How pollen grains get transferred from the male part of the flower to the female part by an animal? | When a bug,bird, or bat brushes against the anther the pollen sticks and the animal moves to the next flower's stigma |
| The transfer of pollen grain is called | POLLINATION |
| Describe one other way flowers can be pollinated (no amimal) | By wind and rainwater |
| How do flowers that are not brightly colored or scented get pollinated? | Most flowers that are pollinated by wind or rain are not scented or brightly colored |
| Pollination can only taken place between plants of the same kind. True or False? | True |
| What is an embryo? | A tiny new plant inside of a seed |
| What is a seed coat? | A tough, protective covering on a seed enclosing the embryo and its food supply |
| A seed turns into a : | FRUIT |
| What is the purpose of a fruit? | To protect the seeds |
| Name some examples of fruits with one seed | peaches, plums and avocados |
| Name some examples of fruits with many seeds | apples, kiwi, oranges |
| According to our book what is asexual reproduction | A process in which offspring are produce from one or more cells of a single parent |
| Define clones | An EXACT copy of a parent organism produced by asexual reproduction |
| Describe tissue culture | Growing new plant form the cells of healthty and disease-resistant plant in a LABORATORY |
| What are the advantages of growing plants from tissue culture? | disease free plants, grow all year long and quicker |
| Name the 4 stages that a tree seed goes through to becomes a mature tree | Germination, Seedling, Sapling and Mature tree |
