Plant Reproduction

1. ASEXUAL
REPRODUCTION
-only requires DNA from one parent. It
creates offspring that are genetically
identical to the parent.
-Genetically identical offspring are called
clones.
stems are also called scaly bulbs. They have
1.1. VEGETATIVE a basal plate that is usually surrounded by
REPRODUCTION modified leaves. These leaves form a papery
covering called a tunic. New bulbs grow off
-does not require seeds or spores. Instead, of the parent bulb’s basal plate.
offspring grow from a part of the parent
plant. In different plants, vegetative
propagation happens in different ways. Potato plants reproduce using tubers. These
underground growths produce new plants
from stems or growing points called eyes.

EXAMPLES OF VEGETATIVE
REPRODUCTION:
Garlic, onions and tulip plants all reproduce
using true bulbs. These short underground

Strawberry plants reproduce using stolons.

They look like branches growing along the
ground. Stolons anchor themselves to the Gametes – male and female sexual
ground and develop roots. And these roots
cells
grow into new plants.
STAMEN – male sex organs
PISTIL – female sex organs
Pollination – how flowering plants
reproduce
STIGMA – where the pollen needs to be

Ginger plants reproduce using rhizomes.

These stems that grow sideways along the
soil or just below the surface. They branch
apart to produce new points of growth.

1.2 FRAGMENTATION
-is another form of asexual reproduction.
-It involves new plants growing from small
parts of the parent plant that fall to the
ground. For example, animals or the wind
can break stems or leaves off plants. This is
one of the
moved
ways that plants like liverworts and mosses
reproduce.
2.1. SELF-POLLINATION

-pollination where the pollen transfer takes

place between the anther and stigma of the
same flower.

2. SEXUAL
REPRODUCTION
2.2 CROSS-POLLINATION
-A pollination where the pollen transfer
takes place between the anther and the
stigma of different flowers of the same plant
or different plants of the same species.

POLLINATORS- are animals that

carry pollen between plants.