Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

Hand-pollinating plants is a simple process that guarantees successful fruit development. Many plants need to be pollinated ...

Pollination takes place when pollen lands ... Most plants have flowers with the male and female parts present in each flower. Mostly, plants rely on insects, such as bees, to take the pollen ...

Students in biology teacher Amy Jones' Ascension Catholic High class learned about plants and self-pollination by dissecting ...

Some plants can pollinate themselves because they have both male and female parts. While many plants have both male and ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...

In some parts of the world, birds, bats and even lizards also get involved. Pollination is how flowering plants reproduce. Pollen needs to travel from the flower's male part, called the anther, to the ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

This will start a new plant. Ivy: So it can create new plants on its own? You're exploding my mind. This film explores the process of pollination and the roles different parts of a plant play.

the yellow parts on lilies that shed pollen, and female pistil, reproductive organs within the same flower.” Cross-pollination involves the transfer of pollen from one male plant to another ...