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Knowledge Base: Science 7.11 Reproduction Year 7
7. Pollination
7.5
State five features common to insect-pollinated flowers
1. Brightly coloured and sweet-smelling petals
2. Small amounts of pollen production 3. Sticky or spiky pollen
4. Sticky stigma
5. Nectar-secreting cells
7.6
What is nectar?
A sugar-rich liquid which insects use as food
7.7
State four features common to wind-pollinate flowers
1. Small petals, often brown or dull green 2. Large amounts of pollen production
3. Pollen which has a low mass
4. No nectar-secreting cells
7.8
How does insect pollination occur?
1. An insect visits a flower and pollen sticks to it
2. The insect moves to the flower of another plant (or same plant)
3. The pollen rubs off on to the stigma
7.9
How does wind pollination occur?
The pollen from the flower of one plant is blown by the wind and lands on the stigma of another plant’s flower
9. Seeds and Fruits
9.1
What happens to the ovary of a flower following fertilisation?
It develops into a fruit
9.2 What is a fruit? A developed ovary containing seeds
9.3
What are the three main structures found in a seed?
A seed coat, an embryo, a food store
9.4
What is function of each structure fond in the seed?
• Seed coat – for protection
• Embryo – to contain the young root and shoot
• Food store – for the young plant to use
• before it can photosynthesise
9.5
What are the names of the structures labelled in this diagram?
9.6 What is germination? When a seed starts to grow
9.7
Name three factors required for germination
Water, oxygen, warmth
8. Fertilisation in Flowering Plants
8.1
What occurs for fertilisation to take place in flowering plants?
The nucleus of a pollen joins with the nucleus of an egg to make a seed
8.2
What are the main steps involved in fertilisation?
1. A pollen grain is transferred to the stigma 2. A pollen tube grows from the stigma to the
ovary through the style
3. The nucleus of the pollen grain passes
through the pollen tube
4. It then joins with the egg cell inside an
ovule of the ovary
5. The fertilised egg will develop into a seed
10. Seed Dispersal
10.1
What is seed dispersal?
The movement of seeds away from the parent plant
10.2
What is the purpose of seed dispersal?
To allow a seed to germinate away from other plants to reduce competition for water and sunlight
10.3
What are the four main methods of seed dispersal?
Wind, animal, water, explosive
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