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Lesson 2 Pollination

Pollination of flower

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Future British international schools

Academic year 2024/2025


Science department
Grade 5

Handout 2
Lesson 2 1.2 Pollination, fruits and seeds.
What’s meant by pollination:
It is transfer of pollen grain from the male part of flower (anther) to the female part
of flower (stigma) of the same kind of flower.
Pollen grains carried from anther to stigma by two main ways:
 Insects.
 Wind.
1) Pollination by insects:
Insects like bees, butterflies and other insects on flower are called pollinators.
Certain insects attract to certain type of flower.
Butterflies like to visit flowers that are big and have lots of nectar.
Nectar is a sweet fluid inside the flower.
How pollination is done by insects?
1) When the insects fly
into the flower to feed
on nectar inside the
flower, they brush
against the anthers.
2) Pollen grains from the
anthers stick to the
insect’s body.
3) The insects carry the
pollen to the stigma of
the same flower or
another flower of the
same type.
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Note:
 Pollination that happens
between flowers from
different plants of the
same species is called
cross pollination.
 Pollination that happens
within the same flower or
different flowers within
the same plant is called
self-pollination.

Flowers pollinated by insects are adapted to attract pollinators in the


following ways:
• They are white or have brightly colored petals.
• They have a scent.
• They produce nectar.
• They have marks on the petals to guide the insect to the nectar inside the flower.
2) Wind pollination
In wind pollination pollens are
carried from anther to stigma of
other flower by wind.
Grass, rice and corn flowers are
wind pollinated.

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Flowers pollinated by wind have these adaptations:


 The petals are small and not brightly colored.
 They do not have a scent or nectar.
 They make lots of smooth light pollen grains that blow away easily.
Why must flowers be pollinated?
Pollination is a necessary step in plant reproduction, as we will see.

Plants reproduce by making seeds.


The pollen and female eggs join to make seeds in a process called fertilization.
Fertilization: is the fusing (union) of male reproductive part with female
reproductive part.

Pollination brings pollen from the male anther to the female stigma. This allows
the eggs to be fertilized and seeds to form.

How fertilization occurs?


Once a pollen grains lands on stigma in another flower of the same species it sends
out a tube into the stigma down the style to the ovule found inside ovary.

What is ovule:
It is the organ within plant that produces and houses female egg cell, which will in
turn fuse with pollen in fertilization process.
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Fertilization only happens if the pollen and the eggs are from the same
kind of flower.

After the egg is fertilized,


the petals and stamens of
the flower die. The ovary
grows and becomes the
fruit. Seeds form inside the
fruit. The fruit protects the
seed and helps to spread
them.
In the Flower In the Fruit
Egg cell Will develop into Plant embryo
Ovule Will develop into seed
Ovary Will develop into Fruit

Questions of learner’s book on lesson 2.

Think like scientist 1:


Which type of scientific enquiry did you use in the investigation?
Identifying and classifying. As we sorted flowers into groups based on the flowers’ features.

Questions:

1) Why do flowers pollinated by insects have brightly colored, scented petals


and nectar?
To attract insects.

2 a) Why do flowers pollinated by wind have little color, no petals or scent?


They do not need to attract insects.
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b) Why do flowers pollinated by wind produce lots of dry pollen?


Dry pollen is carried further. They need lots of pollen because the wind blows it in all directions
and not only onto other flowers.

1) How does pollination help the plant reproduce?


Pollination brings the male pollen to the female stigma so that fertilization can take
place to form seeds.

4) Explain how pollination is different to fertilization.


Pollination is when pollen is carried from the stamens to the stigma of a flower of the same
type. Fertilization is when the pollen and eggs cells join together in the ovary of the flower.

5a) Which part of the flower forms the fruit?


The ovary.

b) What are the functions of the fruit?


The fruit protects the seeds and helps to spread them.

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