Question | Answer |
What is reproduction? | The formation of new individuals |
What is asexual reproduction? | When new individuals are formed from only one parent |
Give an example of a plant which produces using asexual in reproduction | Strawberrys |
What is the name of a method of sexual reproduction in plants? | Runners |
What is sexual reproduction? | When two sex cells unite |
What is a gamete? | A sex cell |
Name the parts of a flower | Sepals,petals,carpel,stamen |
What is the function of the sepals? | To protect the flower when it is a bud |
What is the function of the petals? | To protect the internal parts of a flower. Their colour also attract insects |
What is the carpel? | It is the female part of the flower and it produces an egg cell. The nucleus of the egg is the female gamete |
What is the stamen? | It is the male part of the flower and it produces pollen grains. The nucelus of the pollen grain is the male gamete |
The carpel is the female part of the flower, what is the structure of it? | Stigma,style and ovary |
What is the stigma? | The place where pollen grains will land |
What is the style? | The style connects the stigma to the ovary |
What is the ovary? | The part that contains the ovules,where the egg is produced |
The stamen is the male part of the flower, what is the structure of it? | Filament and anther |
What is the filament? | A stalk that supports the anther. |
Where is the filament located and why? | It is located high in the flower so that pollen can leave the flower more easily |
What is the anther? | It part that makes the pollen grains |
What is pollination? | The transfer of pollen from a stamen to a carpel |
What types of pollination are there? | Wind pollination and insect pollination |
What is fertilisation? | The joining of the male and female gametes to form a zygote |
What happens once fertilisation has happened in a plant? | The ovule forms a seed |
What is dispersal? | The carrying of the seed as far as possible from the parent plant |
What types of dispersal are there? | Wind dispersal,animal dispersal,self dispersal and water dispersal |
Animal dispersal seeds are sticky, give an example of animal dispersed seeds | Goosegrass |
What is germination? | The growth of a seed to form a new plant |
What conditions are necessary for germination? | Water,oxygen and a suitable temperature |