OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson students should be able to:
- give the meaning of pollination.
- state two types of pollination.
- explain the two types of pollination.
- mention five agents of pollination.
- outline the features of a cross pollinated flowers.
- state two advantages and two disadvantages of self-pollination.
- mention five features of a wind pollinated flower.
- highlight five features of an insect pollinated flower.
POLLINATION IN PLANTS
Pollination is the process by which mature pollen grains are transferred from a mature stigma of a flower.
It may be to the same flower or another flower of the same or related species. Pollination is the first phase in sexual reproduction of flowering plants.
TYPES OF POLLINATION
- Self pollination
- Cross pollination
- SELF POLLINATION: Is the process in which mature pollen grains are transferred from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same flower or a flower on the same plant.
- CROSS POLLINATION: Is the transferred of mature pollen grain from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same or closely related species e g.
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