Ch. 24: Reproduction in Flowering Plants
24.1
- stamen: male part of a flower
- anthers: structures where pollen grains
- carpels: produces and shelters the female gametophyte & seeds
- stigma: sticky or feathery portion at the top of the style
- pistil: single carpel or multiple carpels fused together
- embryo sac: eight nuclei and their surrounding membrane
- double fertilization: two distinct fertilizations that occur inside the embryonic sac
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- sexual reproduction * 2 fertilizations * first fertilization: makes embryo * second fertilization: makes food
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