Growth & reproduction Flashcards
Scinece
What is budding?
A bud growth from the parent (asexual reproduction)
What is fission?
The parent splitting in two to make new life (asexual reproduction)
Parthenogenesis
When offspring develop from unfertalised egg (asexual reproduction)
What are gameates?
Specalised reproductive cells
What is the female gameate?
Egg, located in ovarys
What is the male gameate?
Sperm, located in testes
What is internal fertalisation?
Happens inside females body
What is external fertalisation?
Happens outside both male and females body
What is the flower
The reproductive organ of the plant
What are the roots 3 main function?
- Anchor and support plant
- Absorb water and nutrients
- Store food and nutrients
Where are the xylem and phloem located
The stem
What does the xylem do
Move water and nutrients
X is closer to w than p
What does the phloem do
Moves sugar from leaves to any growing parts
Whats the leaves main job
To Photosynthesise
What is the sepal?
The protective leaves that protect the bud
What creates seeds?
When the male sex cell in the pollen reaches the eggs
What is the fruit
Where the seed develops, it is the remains of the ovary. It can be in dry cases or juicy ones (apple)
Female parts in plants
- Stigma - the small tip that sticks out to collect pollen
- Style - a long tube attached to the stigma that transports pollen to the ovary.
- Ovary - at the base of the flower which contains eggs.
What are the female parts of the flower called together?
The Pistol
What are the male parts of the flower?
- Filament - A thin stalk attached to the flower
- Anther - A small sack attched to the anther which has the pollen which produces sperm cells.
What are the male plant parts called together
The stamen (men)
What do the fallopian tubes do?
Caries the egg from the ovary to the uterus
What does the uterus do?
Where the baby develops during pregnancy
What does the ovary do?
Contains hundreds of underdeveloped eggs
