Blog Post Assignment #10

This is a picture of the whole flower.

This is a picture of the a stigma with anthers surrounding it. This is known as a perfect flower because both female and male reproductive organs appear in one flower. Many other flowers have the male and female organs in separate flowers.

This is a picture of the female anatomy of the flower called carpel. The carpel has stalk that is sticky and captures the pollen.

This picture is magnification 40x of the male anatomy of flower called stamen. There are two parts ti the stamen, the antler and filament. The stalk is called the filament and at the end of it is the anther. This is where the male sperm cells are, the male organ produces and releases pollen.

This is a picture of the ovaries, inside contains the ovules. These are the eggs with the female genetic information. When they have pollen, they can fertilize and become seeds.

The process of fertilization in plants depend on the other parts of the flower. without one part the cant fertilize. The the flower contains both male and female organs, this way the flower can pollinate without bees or other pollinators. The female reproductive organs are the ovary, stigma, and pistol. the male reproductive organs are the stamen and pollen. The stamen creates pollen and it has to move to the carpel to be able to fertilize. The stigma is sticky so it can capture the pollen, then the pollen moves to the ovary. There they fertilize and become seeds.

This picture is a 40x magnification of pollen from the flower, they look like jelly seeds. Without this the flower would not be able to fertilize, the pollen contains genetic information for fertilization.