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Cards (14)

  • Petal: Provides colour and scent to attract pollinators. 
    Provides a landing pad on their arrival
  • Sepal: Protects the flower as a bud
  • Receptacle: Supports the parts of the flower 
  • Nectary: Provides nectar to attract pollinators 
  • Ovary: Makes and holds the ovules 
  • Ovule: The part of the ovary of seed plants that contains the female gamete 
  • Style: Folds the stigma where it can best receive pollen
  • Stigma: receives pollen from pollinator
  • Anther: Makes pollen, which contains the male gamete
  • Filament: Holds the anther where it can best deliver pollen
  • Stamen: Produces pollen, the collective name for the male parts of the flower
  • Carpel: The collective name for the female parts of the flower (a.k.a. pistil)
  • Micropyle: small opening in the surface of an ovule that allows the male nucleus to enter
  • Fertilisation involves the fusion of the nuclei of two gametes (sex cells, also referred to as haploids) to form a zygote (diploid).