I never took Science in school but always wanted to learn it. My tutor Lynda and i just finished doing art projects. My mom told me there was male and female plants what did this mean? As a result, Lynda(who taught Science) and I started studying plant cells. I found out some interesting facts about plants
1. The perfect flower with fertile male and female organs both on the same flower. Plants with flowers in this category include apples, plums, lilacs, potentilla, tomato and many ornamental flowers
2. The perfect flower with male and female organs both on the same flower, but with either the male or the female organ infertile. In this category are included plants in the sunflower family and many other hybrid ornamentals. These ornamentals usually have large, showy flowers that are "double" or "semi-double" - with more than the normal number of petals.
1. The perfect flower with fertile male and female organs both on the same flower. Plants with flowers in this category include apples, plums, lilacs, potentilla, tomato and many ornamental flowers
2. The perfect flower with male and female organs both on the same flower, but with either the male or the female organ infertile. In this category are included plants in the sunflower family and many other hybrid ornamentals. These ornamentals usually have large, showy flowers that are "double" or "semi-double" - with more than the normal number of petals.
3. The imperfect flower with either fertile male or fertile female organs, but not both, on the same flower. Spruce, pines, ash and maples have imperfect flowers.
Did you know?
Question: How do you account for missing kernels on corn in my garden? Some of the cobs have kernels missing here and there. On other cobs, many rows of kernels are absent.
Answer: Corn is monoecious remember. Each cob is actually a flower that contains many female organs. . Above the cobs are the tassles, which are the male flowers. Pollen from the tassles is carried by the wind to the female organs, each of which will produce a single seed, or kernel, when fertilized. If kernels are absent the likely explanation is that pollen did not reach some female organs, probably because the wind carried the pollen away from the cob. Planting corn in squares rather than long rows will help to assure pollination.
information from http://gardenline.usask.ca/misc/thesex.html
Did you know?
Question: How do you account for missing kernels on corn in my garden? Some of the cobs have kernels missing here and there. On other cobs, many rows of kernels are absent.
Answer: Corn is monoecious remember. Each cob is actually a flower that contains many female organs. . Above the cobs are the tassles, which are the male flowers. Pollen from the tassles is carried by the wind to the female organs, each of which will produce a single seed, or kernel, when fertilized. If kernels are absent the likely explanation is that pollen did not reach some female organs, probably because the wind carried the pollen away from the cob. Planting corn in squares rather than long rows will help to assure pollination.
information from http://gardenline.usask.ca/misc/thesex.html
picture from http://flickr.com/photos/mellyjean/216579909/
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