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Sample exam questions |
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Flower |
Double fertilization |
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Receptacle |
Embryo sac |
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Sepals |
Egg, polar nuclei |
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Petals |
Endosperm |
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Stamens |
Integuments, micropyle |
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Anther, filament |
Selfing, outcrossing |
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Pistil and carpel |
Pollination syndromes |
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Stigma, style, ovary, ovule |
Seed, fruit |
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Complete, incomplete |
Simple, aggregate, multiple fruits |
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Perfect, imperfect |
Asexual reproduction |
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Fusion of parts |
Vegetative propagation |
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Solitary, inflorescence |
Fragmentation |
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Monoecious, dioecious |
Cloning |
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Generative and tube nuclei |
Apomixis |
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Sperm nuclei |
Grafts, cuttings |
Try to identify for each of the following fruits (in the botanical sense), what part of the original flower is modified as the part we eat (you may not be able to figure all of them out): banana, watermelon, tomato, peach, corn, coconut milk
Why would a plant like a violet produce some flowers that open up and are pollinated by bees and other flowers that do not open and are self-pollinated?