Plants have male and female

sex cells just like animals.

They reproduce
seeds inside fruit.

to

form

Reproduction
consists
of
pollination, fertilisation, seed
dispersal, and germination.

Stigma
Style

Carpel

Ovary

Petal

Sepal

Anther
Stamen
Filament

Fill in the missing gaps!

Carpel: these are the female parts of the flower and
g _
m _,
a which receives the pollen
consist of the _S_t _i _
grains, _S_t_y_l _e and _O_ v_ a_ r_.y The ovary contains
O _v _u _l _
e _.
s
_
o u_ r_e_d _ to
Petal: these are often brightly _ C_o_l _
t s_ for pollination.
attract I_ n_ s_ e_ c_ _
Stamen: these are the _M_a _l e_ parts of the flower
(staMEN) and consist of an _ A_n _t h_ e_r _, which
n s the
produces the _P_o_ l_l _e _n _ _ _ g_ r_ a_,i and
F_ i_l _a_m_ e_ n_ t_.
t bud. They are
Sepals: these _ _P_r_o_t _e_cthe
G_ r_ e
e_
n and are just below the flower petals.
__

This is the beginning of making

a seed.
The pollen grain from the
anther must be transferred to
the stigma; either of the same
plant (self-pollination) or the
stigma of another plant (crosspollination).
This can be achieved by wind
or by insects.

Stigma
Anther

Insects such as bees carry pollen on

their bodies from the anther to the
sticky stigmas.
Flowers that use insect pollination to
reproduce usually:
Have brightly coloured petals
Have scented flowers
Contain sugary nectar inside them.

Flowers that use wind

reproduce usually have:

pollination

to

Less brightly coloured petals

No scent
No nectar
Filaments that hang the anthers outside
the flower to catch the wind.
They produce more pollen than insect
pollinated plants.

Fertilisation occurs when the male _ Pollen

_ _ _ _ _ grain
_ _ _ _ _ joins with
a female _ovule
_ _ _ _.
The pollen _nucleus
_ _ _ _ _ _ fuses with the ovule nucleus.
The
ovule nucleus can then grow into a _seed
_ _ _.
The pollen grain lands on the _stigma
_ _ _ _
insects or the _wind
_ _ _.

with help from

A pollen tube grows out of the pollen down the _style

_ _ _
towards the ovary.
The pollen nucleus moves down the tube to join with the
_ _ _ _ _ nucleus.
ovule

Fertilisation

has occurred; the ovary turns into a _ fruit

____
and inside it the ovule grows into a _seed
_ _ _.
_____________

Pollen grains
Each pollen grain
grows a pollen
tube down to the
ovule

Nucleus from
pollen grain
Ovule

One pollen tube

reaches
the
ovule where a
nucleus of a
male cell joins
with
the
nucleus in a
female cell.

1) What is the female part of the flower called?

2)What is the male part of the flower called?
3)What is the difference between
pollination and self-pollination?

cross

4)Name the two ways that pollen can be

transferred to a stigma?
5)What is fertilisation in plants?
6)What do the ovaries and the ovules become
after fertilisation?

1) Carpel
2)Stamen
3)Cross-pollination is between two different
plants; self-pollination is when the plant
pollinates itself.
4)By insects or the wind.
5)The joining of a male pollen nucleus with a
female ovule nucleus.
6)Ovaries become fruit, ovules become seeds.