Student Blog Post #7 by Edrick Sok

A plant fertilizes sexually, just like all other animals. They go through the process of meiosis, a way for them to reproduce, the process that reduces the number of chromosomes by half. The plants have both the male reproductive organs and the female reproductive organs. The stamen, the male organ, would release pollen grains in the air, setting up to be carried by another insect. The insect would carry the pollen to another flower. They would place the pollen grain onto the stigma of the carpel, where it would be sucked down the pollen tube. Where the sperm would join with the egg inside the ovary inside an ovule. This is the same for all of the ovules inside the ovary. After the fertilization happens, the ovules develops into a seed, containing an embryo. Finally, when it matures it turns into a fruit, the seeds will grow off the fruit.

This is an anther. This is part male reproductive system of the flower. The anther is a part of the Stamen and so is the Filament. Its role in the angiosperm is to release the pollen grains in the air, for hopes of being set on a stigma of a carpel of another flower.

This is the Stigma of the flower. It's part of the female reproductive system of the flower. It's used as the entry point for the pollen. Where it is taken down the pollen tube inside the Style of the Carpel. The pollen tube goes down to the Ovary into the Ovules.