KS3 Y7 Pollination and Fertilisation

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   anther      cross pollination      downwards      embryo      fertilisation      fruit      Half      information      join      nucleus      other half      ovary      pollen tube      pollination      seed      self pollination      small      spikey      stigma      sugar      variety   
For sexual reproduction to take place pollen from the of one flower must land on the of another flower. This is called . Pollen grains can be carried by insects like bees and these tend to be so that they can stick onto the body of insects.

Pollen grains carried by the wind are and light.

When pollen lands onto a stigma it grows a inside the style. It grows towards the . The growth of the pollen tube can be controlled by solution. The of the pollen travel down this tube.

When the pollen tube reaches the ovule the nucleus of the pollen grain will with the nucleus of the egg cell. This is called . A fertilised egg cell is formed. The new nucleus inside this fertilised egg cell will now have all the necessary to make a new cell.

of this information comes from one plant and the from the other plant. Because the new plant has some features from both parent plants it is said to be a new .

The fertilised egg will grow and divide. Eventually it will become an .
The ovule will become the and the ovary will become the which swells up. The fleshy part of an apple is what we eat and the core of the apple is where we find the seeds that once was the ovule.

There are two main types of pollination

When pollen grain from a flower of a plant gets to the stigma of a flower on the same plant we call this .

When pollen grain from a flower of a plant gets to the stigma of a flower on another plant we call this . Cross pollination allows new varieties to be formed.

 

 

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