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What is the main purpose of brightly colored, conspicuous petals in flowering plants?
What are the male gametophytes enclosed within?
What is the role of nectar in flowering plants?
Which part of a flower produces ovules?
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What are the vegetative organs that enclose and protect the developing flower?
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Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower, petals that attract pollinators, and reproductive organs that produce gametophytes, which in flowering plants produce gametes. The male gametophytes, which produce sperm, are enclosed within pollen grains produced in the ______
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The female gametophytes are contained within the ovules produced in the ______
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Most flowering plants depend on animals, such as bees, moths, and butterflies, to transfer their pollen between different flowers, and have evolved to attract these pollinators by various strategies, including brightly colored, conspicuous petals, attractive scents, and the production of ______, a food source for pollinators
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In this way, many flowering plants have co-evolved with pollinators to be mutually dependent on services they ______
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A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae). Flowers consist of a combination of vegetative organs – sepals that enclose and protect the developing flower, petals that attract pollinators, and reproductive organs that produce gametophytes, which in flowering plants produce ______
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