BIOL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ragweed, Corn Syrup, Seed Dormancy

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In this class (lectures 2 and3: pollination and fertilization, plant taxonomy, structure of seeds, flower types, seed dormancy and germination. Microsporangia in flowering plants are located in the: a) stamen, b) carpel, c) petals, d) sepals, e) receptacle. More a response to the environment they are in: how have plants adapted to this, strategies for pollination, strategies for seed dispersal. Don"t need attractive, smell good etc because don"t need to attract animals. The tassle is the male and the ear of the corn is the female. If something damages the silk before pollination, won"t have the associated kernel on the cob. Corn used for ethanol, animal and human feed, plastics, corn syrup. Of the major fruit crops, only grapes are wind pollinated. Grasses, including corn, wheat ,rice and grassy weeds, are wind pollinated. If pollination succeeds, a pollen grain produces a pollen tube that grows down into the ovary and discharges two sperm cells near the embryo sac.

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