Hand-pollinating plants is a simple process that guarantees successful fruit development. Many plants need to be pollinated ...

Students in biology teacher Amy Jones' Ascension Catholic High class learned about plants and self-pollination by dissecting ...

But how did these immobile organisms manage to spread so far? One answer is pollination, or plant sexual reproduction. Pollinators—typically wind, water, and animals—carry pollen from one ...

Ecologists whimsically decided to call the parts that make up a flower its whorls. The first whorl of a flower is known as the calyx, which is the plant’s green, leafy outer structure that ...

The male parts are called stamens ... Most plants use cross pollination. Insects can pollinate flowers, and so can the wind. Insect-pollinated flowers are different in structure from wind ...

In some parts of the world, birds, bats and even lizards also get involved. Pollination is how flowering plants reproduce. Pollen needs to travel from the flower's male part, called the anther, to the ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among ...

For gardeners understanding cross-pollination is key because it helps you plan your garden well. Here’s all you need to ...

If pollen from a hot pepper fertilizes the flower of a sweet pepper, all the hot pepper genes from the father plant go into the embryo in the seed. The genes from the male parent do not play a part in ...

This will start a new plant. Ivy: So it can create new plants on its own? You're exploding my mind. This film explores the process of pollination and the roles different parts of a plant play.

When the bee flies off and lands on another orchid it deposits the pollen, allowing the flowers to reproduce. Despite the elaborate deception, bee orchids also engage in self-pollination, transferring ...