Chapter 39: Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants Flashcards
What is the difference between sexual and asexual reproduction?
Asexual - mitosis , one parent , identical offspring
Sexual - meiosis , two parents , variation
What is the male part of the flower?
Stamen
What are the parts of the stamen?
Anther
Filament
What is the function of the anther?
Produces pollen
What is the function of the filament?
Holds anther in place, has vascular bundles
What is the female part of the flower?
Carpel
What are the parts of carpel?
Stigma
Style
Ovary
What is the function of stigma?
Where the pollen lands
What is the function of the style?
Pollen travels down
What is the function of the ovary?
Contains ovules, formation of the female gamete
What is pollination?
The transfer of pollen from the anther to a stigma of a flower from the same species
What are the two types of pollination?
Self pollination
Cross pollination
What is self pollination?
Self fertilization
Seeds are less sturdy and vigorous
What is cross pollination?
Cross fertilisation - one plant fertilizes another
Seeds are more varied and vigorous
What are the two methods of pollination?
Animal
Wind
What are wind pollination adaptations?
Petals: small, not colored
Anthers: outside petal
Stigmas: large feathery and outside petals
Pollen: large numbers, light, dry and small
E.g. rye grass
What are the adaptations of animal pollination?
Petals: brightly coloured, scented with nectar Anthers: inside petals Stigmas: sticky, inside petals Pollen: small amounts, sticky E.g. daisy
What is fertilisation?
The union of the male and female gametes to form a diploid zygote
What is double fertilisation?
One sperm nucleus (n) fuses with an egg nucleus (n) to form a zygote (2n)
Then
The second sperm (n) fuses with the 2 polar nuclei (n) to form a endosperm (3n)
How is a seed formed?
The fertilised ovule becomes the seed
The zygote grows by mitosis - becomes embryo
Endosperm divides by mitosis - expands and absorbs nucellus - becomes food source
What is the function of the endosperm?
Food source
What are the parts of an embryo?
Radicle
Plumule
Cotyledon
What is the radicle?
Future roots
What is the plumule?
Future shoots
What is the cotyledon?
Stores food, used for germination
What are the two types of seeds?
Non endospermic
Endospermic