BIOL 1902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Buzz Pollination, Pollen, Gynoecium

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Flowers are sex machines they are just there to reproduce like some animals they are sedentary they tend to be hermaphroditic and most flowers are also hermaphroditic. The long neck is called style, the last part of the pistol where the eggs are the ovaries. Pollen grains are the floral equivalent of an intermittent organ brings the sperm near the eggs near the eggs of the flower doing the same function. Allergies to pollen - rag weed, grass pollen. Grass pollen is carried by the wind and if it uses wind to carry the pollen then the pollen has to have certain features - it has to be small and light edges. Sedges - are wind pollinated they are triangular where a grass stem is round sedges have. Problem: there is no guarantee that your pollen will land on the right target.

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