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How do plants reproduce sexually |
Buy seed and or spores |
By budding and division |
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How do plants reproduce asexually |
By budding and division |
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What is a seed |
A structure formed when a sperm from a pollen grain fertilizes an egg; contains plant embryo |
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What are the steps of plant reproduction |
1. the anther will release the pollen grain 2. the pollen will travel by wind or insect 3. picked up by the stigma 4. sperm is released and travels to find the egg 5. fertilization occurs and creates a zygote |
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What is an angiosperm |
A flowering plant that often produces fruit |
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Where does the root of a plant come from |
Ovaries |
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What is a pollinator |
An organism that carries pollen |
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The steps of reproduction in angiosperms |
One nectar attracts the pollinators The nectar is a source of energy While the pollinator eats, the pollen attaches Then the pollinator flies to the next plant and drops the pollen and fertilizes that plant |
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What are the two types of cells that pollen grains are made up of |
Tube cell (travels down the tube) Generative cell (the part that is made up of the two sperm cells) |
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Where do you the two sperm cells travel to |
They travel to the ovules |
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What two forms do the sperm cells take |
One of them forms a zygote and the other one forms an endosperm (food source for the seed) |
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