Flowering Plants

To understand how flowering plants disperse it is important to understand their structure and their methods of reproduction. Use the hyperlinks below to link to the relevant chapters in Discovering Natural Science.

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• Flowers and Reproduction

• The Structure of insect-pollinated Flowers

• Pollinating Mechanisms

• Wind-pollinated Flowers

From Flower to Fruit

When the ovules have been fertilized they develop into seeds. At the same time the carpel starts its development into a fruit. The photographs below show this change in two flowers, the tomato flower and the buttercup flower.

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• Fruit and Seed Dispersal

• Other methods of dispersal

• The Spore-producing Plants
• Laboratory work relating to this chapter
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