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All gymnosperms produce naked seeds. Many gymnosperms have needle-like or scalelike leaves, and deep-growing root systems. Gymnosperms are the oldest type of seed plants. There are 4 types of gymnosperms today: Cycads, conifers, ginkgoes, and gnetophtes. Cycads are mainly in tropical and subtropical areas. Conifers are cone bearing plants, largest most diverse group of gymnosperms, they keep their leaves or needles year round. There is only one kind of Ginkoes left- ginko biloba. Gnetophytes live in hot deserts and in tropical rain forests. Cones are reproductive structures of gymnosperms. Usually a plant produces both male cone and a female cone; some produces none. The male cone produces pollen grains, which contains cells that will mature into sperm cells. The ovules contain an ovum or egg cell. First pollen falls from a male cone onto a female cone. A sperm cell and an egg cell join together in an ovule on the female cone. After fertilization occurs, the seed develops on the scale of a female cone. Once pollination has happened, the ovule closes and seals in the pollen. Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male reproductive structure to a female reproductive structure. In gymnosperms, wind often carries the pollen from the male cone to the female cone. All angiosperms produce flowers and seeds that are enclosed in fruit. Gymnosperms are different from angiosperms because gymnosperms produce naked seeds and angiosperms produce seeds covered in fruit. Angiosperms live almost everywhere on Earth. Despite their differences, all flowers have the same function, which is reproduction. A flower is the reproductive structure of an angiosperm. Draw and label a flower, like figure 26. Sepals are leaflike structures that the flower is inside when it is a bud. Petals are the colorful part of the plant. Stamen is the male reproductive part of a flower. Pistils are the female parts of the flower and are found in the center of most flowers. The stigma is the sticky tip of the pistil. The style is a slender tube that connects the stigma to the ovary. Ovary is the hollow structure at the base of the flower that which protects the seed. Pollinators like birds, bats, and insects are attracted to flowers by colors, shapes, and smells. Pollinators carry pollen from one flower to another. First pollen falls on a flower’s stigma. The sperm cell and egg cell join together in the flower’s ovule. The zygote develops into the embryo part of the seed. Fruit is a ripened ovary and other structures that enclose one or more seeds. Angiosperms are divided into two major groups: monocots and dicots. Monocots have only one seed Dicots produce seeds with two leaf, parallel veins, bundles of seed leaves, branching veins, vascular tissue scattered bundles of vascular tissue throughout the stem, and arranged in a ring, and flower in flowers in three parts or groups four or five parts. of three. Some products made from Some products made from gymnosperms are paper, angiosperms are food, clothing, lumber, turpentine, clothes, medicine, furniture, and rubber rosin used by baseball pitchers, for tires. gymnasts, and musicians.