Important Terms - Lecture 10

Plant Reproduction

 

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Flower

Double fertilization

Receptacle

Embryo sac

Sepals

Egg, polar nuclei

Petals

Endosperm

Stamens

Integuments, micropyle

Anther, filament

Selfing, outcrossing

Pistil and carpel

Pollination syndromes

Stigma, style, ovary, ovule

Seed, fruit

Complete, incomplete

Simple, aggregate, multiple fruits

Perfect, imperfect

Asexual reproduction

Fusion of parts

Vegetative propagation

Solitary, inflorescence

Fragmentation

Monoecious, dioecious

Cloning

Generative and tube nuclei

Apomixis

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?

 

 

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