Sentences with phrase «flower parts»

He wonders, however, whether bats also influenced the evolution of female flower parts.

A group of South American plants has evolved bulbous organs in their flowers that spray pollen at pollinating birds because birds eat the male flower parts whole

That's not gonna get you a Ph.D. at Harvard, but it's more interesting than counting flower parts.

«It seems nectar and nectaries, the glands which produce it, attract herbivores that would otherwise feed on other flower parts.

A special RNA appears to undo a mutation that causes A. thaliana flower parts to fuse (top), so that the offspring flowers are just fine (bottom).

Most often the fungus shows up on grasses and other monocots — plants often distinguished by flower parts in threes and parallel leaf venation — such as pineapples, bananas and sugarcane, but it has also been found on non-monocots such as grapes and muskmelon.

Also, modern blooms lost some of their whorls, the concentric layers of different flower parts.

The data also indicate that the ancestral angiosperm had the basic portfolio of genes to make flowers, including 21 MADS - box genes that help determine what flower part — such as a petal or a stamen — forms where.

The former's roots or seed heads help fight a cold while the latter's flowering parts support ongoing immune function.

Male flower parts, or stamens, produce pollen that fertilises female parts, known as pistils, to make seeds.

«It was surprising that many classic characteristics of orchids — the tiny, dust - like seeds, the role of fungi in triggering germination, the fused male - female flower parts that define the orchid flower — did not trigger the acceleration in species formation,» says Thomas Givnish, a professor of botany and first author of the new study.

Mulberries are dioecious, meaning that the flowering parts are on different trees --- males and females --- and the fruits and seeds are produced on the female plants.

Chiles and tomatoes, for example, are monoecious, with all flowering parts on the same plant.

Wash the zucchini and cut off stem and flower part.

Ask children to use the tweezers to remove the flower parts and place on a piece of paper, labelling the parts as they go.

After all the flower parts were taped down, the kids used a magnifying glass to look more closely at the various parts.

Flower remedies, or flower essences, are herbal infusions made from the flowering part of wild plants, and are used to address the emotional and mental realms of one's health.

What you don't see is that the dress has two materials, the flower part is cotton and the other part is knitwear which makes it special.

I usually provide pupils with an information sheet to support with labelling the diagram and completing functions of flower parts (BBC Bitesize has a good page).

Flower essences are herbal infusions made from the flowering parts of very specific plants.

Zoo Med — Crested Gecko Food Zoo Med's Crested Gecko Foods meet the dietary needs of geckos that eat a variety of insects and fruits, nectars and flower parts.

Flower essences (remedies) are specially prepared extracts of the flowering parts of certain plants.

One should also understand that massive tree farming has very little impact for storing carbon dioxide as trees will in a few years started sloughing off leaves, flower parts, fruit parts, and broken branches to get biodegraded reemitting the carbon dioxide.