Plant Reproduction and Anatomy

Plant Reproduction

• Plants sometimes rely on animals for pollination to complete their life cycle.
• Sepals are the leaflike structures of a flower.
• The petals are responsible for the attractiveness of a flower.
• Nectar, a sweet liquid, is secreted by flowers to attract pollinators.
• Male parts of a flower that a plant physiologist would study include the stamen.
• Pollen is produced in the anther of a plant.
• The filament is not part of the female portion of the flower.
• Ovules ultimately become the seed in plants.
• "A" in the flower anatomy figure represents the anther.
• "C" in the flower anatomy figure represents the sepal.
• "D" in the flower anatomy figure represents the petal.
• A flower with both a stamen and a carpel is complete.
• Alternation of generation in flowering plants includes the formation of a sporophyte generation that is diploid.
• The male gametophyte in flowering plants is found within the pollen grain.
• Meiosis is the process by which the microspore and megaspore are produced.
• Sperm reaches the egg after pollen transfer via the pollen tube.
• Coevolution describes the condition where species evolve in response to each other, resulting in mutual adaptation.
• The endosperm's function is to provide nutrients to the embryo.
• A globular fruit is not a type of fruit.
• A plant biologist studying a raspberry would be studying an aggregate type of fruit because it comes from a flower with many separate carpels.
• A pea pod and maple tree fruit are dry fruits.
• The proper order of events in plant reproduction is: Pollination, fertilization, seed formation, and germination.
• Asexual reproduction in plants is vegetative reproduction.
• Fruit tree roots like cherry and apple produce suckers, which can grow into new trees.
• Cells capable of developing into an entire plant are totipotent.