Lesson Flashcards: Reproduction in Flowering Plants

The female reproductive cell, or gamete

A structure that eventually develops into an embryo’s first leaves

A seed tissue that acts as a nutritional food store for the plant embryo to support its development

The pollination of a flower with pollen from another plant of the same species

The part of the male reproductive organ that carries the anther

Flowering plants whose ovules are enclosed in an ovary

The petals of a flower that typically form a whorl within the sepals and enclose the reproductive organs

The part of the male reproductive organ in which pollen grains, which contain the plant’s male gametes, are produced

A type of fertilization in which one sperm nucleus fuses with the egg nucleus to form an embryo and another sperm nucleus fuses with two polar nuclei to form endosperm

Seeds that have two cotyledons