Reproduction in Plants

Section 1: Introduction to Plant Reproduction

Section 2: Flowers
Section 3: Flowering Plants
The life cycles of plants include various methods of reproduction.
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• Section 1: Like all plants, the life cycles of mosses, ferns, and
conifers include alternation of generations.
• Section 2: Flowers are the reproductive structures of
anthophytes.
• Section 3: In anthophytes, seeds and fruits can develop from
flowers after fertilization.
Essential Questions
• What are advantages of vegetative reproduction?
• What are the stages of alternation of generations?
• What are the similarities among the reproduction of mosses, ferns, and conifers?
• What are the parts of a flower and what are their functions?
• What are complete, incomplete, perfect, and imperfect flowers?
• What is the difference between monocot and eudicot flowers?
• What is photoperiodism?

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Essential Questions continued
• How can the life cycle of a flowering plant be described?
• What is the process of fertilization and seed formation in flowering plants?
• What are the different methods of seed dispersal?
• What is seed germination?

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Vocabulary
Review New continued
• flagellated • stamen
• nocturnal • pistil
• cytoskeleton • photoperiodism
New • short-day plant
• vegetative reproduction • long-day plant
• chemotaxis • intermediate-day plant
• protonema • day-neutral plant
• prothallus • polar nuclei
• heterosporous • endosperm
• megaspore • seed coat
• microspore • germination
• micropyle • radicle
• sepal • hypocotyl
• petal • dormancy
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