pollination 🌻🐝💨

Question 1

what fertilise the ovule

Answer 1

pollen grains

Question 2

what are the two types of pollination

Answer 2

cross-pollination : two different plants
self- pollination : male + female parts of the same plant

Question 3

what is pollination

Answer 3

pollen from the anther transfers to the stigma to fertilise it

Question 4

what are the two ways pollen can be transferred to the stigma

Answer 4

by wind : pollen from flower of one plant blown by wind and could land on stigma of another plants flower
by insects : when insects visit flower the pollen gets stuck to them and when they move to another flower pollen from the first flower rubs off onto the stigma of the next flower

Question 5

what are insect pollinated plants like

Answer 5

• brightly coloured + sweet smelling petals
• contain nectar sweet sugary fluid
• produce small quantities of sticky/spikey pollen which sticks to insects
• have anthers + stigma held firmly inside flower so insect can brush against them easily

Question 6

what are wind pollinated plants like

Answer 6

• have small dull green/brown petals
• don’t produce nectar
• produce large amount of very light pollen easily carried by wind
• loosely attached anthers and stigmas which dangle out of flower making it easier for plant to release pollen and catch pollen from other plants