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Flower Study List
Flowers and flower parts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the gynoecium? | The parts that make up the felmale part of the flower. This includes the carpel(s) and all of their parts (stigma, style, ovary and ovule). |
| What is the androecium? | The androecium is all of the parts that make up the male part of the flower. This includes the stamens and all of their parts. |
| What are carpellate flowers? | These are "female" flowers. They produce fruit (and have no male parts). |
| What are staminate flowers? | Flowers that only have androecium, meaning they are "male" flowers. |
| What are perfect flowers? | Flowers that have both male and female parts. |
| What are monoecious flowers? | Plants that have carpellate and staminate flowers on a single individual. |
| What are dioecious flowers? | Plants that have carpellate and staminate flowers on separate individual plants. |
| What is the basic function of a flower? | Reproduction!!!! Pollen from an anther is delivered to a stigma. The pollen germinates on the stigma and forms a pollen tube that delivers sperm to the egg within the ovule. |
| What develops into an embryo? | The fertilized egg. |
| What develops into endosperm? | The fertilized polar nuclei. |
| What is endosperm? | It is nutritive tissue for the embryo. |