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Name__________________________________________ Period _______ “Flowers to Seeds” Reading Guide
McLeese
As your read “Flowers to Seeds” on pgs. 40-44, answer the following questions completely.
1. What is the purpose of flowers?____________________________________________________________
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2. Flowers reproduce __________________________ which means that a male cell and a female cell must
unite to produce a new life the next generation of that plant.
3. The most visible and showy parts of the flower are the ________________. Around the base of the petals
where the flower attaches to the stem, are some green leaflike structures called____________________.
4. The reproductive parts of the flower are in the middle. Reaching up from the center of the flower are several
_______________________, the male parts of the flower. Each stamen has two parts, the long, thin
_______________________ that is tipped with an ________________________. Thousands of
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_______________________ form in the anthers. Inside each pollen grain
is the specialized male sex cell, the ________________________.
5. Right in the middle of the flower is the _______________________, the female part of the flower. The
flattened tip of the pistil is the ________________________, and the base of the pistil deep inside the
center of the flower is the _________________________. Inside the ovary are the
__________________________, the “nests” in which the specialized female sex cells, the
________________, reside. That’s a flower.
6. In a flower what do we call when the two sex cells meet and unite? _______________________________
7. Many plants can be pollinated only by pollen from other plants of the same kind. How does pollen get from
one plant to another? (List & Describe the two ways)
1. __________________________ - ____________________________________________________
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2. __________________________ - ____________________________________________________
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8. Explain how bees pollinate flowers.
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9. What is a pollinator and how might one be attracted to a plant?
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10. After successful fertilization, single cell divides and eventually developed into an embryo, then the
development stops. The parent plant supplies the embryo with a package of energy-rich food, the future
______________________, and wraps the whole system in a weatherproof coat. The plant has just
produced a ___________________________.
11. A fruit is: _____________________________________________________________________________
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