Pollen

When the honeybee lands on a flower and that flower has pollen which is usually located somewhere near or inside the flower, the bee sucks up the pollen, and get the pollen on its body, and as the bee goes to another flower, that pollen mixes with the new flower and then seeds are produced and from there the flower starts to grow when that seed takes root somewhere. Without being pollinated, the…

hurts, and itching my nose and giving myself a lovely (insert sarcasm here) horizontal crease. Allergies drive me crazy, but at the same time, I’m amazed at how it works and the reason behind having allergies. When a foreign substance, such as flower pollen in the case of the spring season, enters the body, your immune system takes over. Typically the white blood cells of the immune…

four haploid microspores (n) which have half of the plants original genes. All four of these microspores will develop into pollen grains which contain the male gametophytes. Inside the gametophytes are two different haploid cells, one is a generative cell (n) that will divide into two sperm when it encounters the stigma and the other is a pollen cell (n) that will form the pollen tube for pollination (Reece et al. 2014). The carpel consists of a stigma, style and ovary. Inside the ovary there…

While reading the book Genome by Matt Ridley, I started to hone in on some of the key topics and main ideas to take away from this novel. It was a very interesting read that introduced new ideas to me. Many of the ideas in the book applied directly to our Biology class. Some topics that were covered in lecture can be directly applied to the book. Matt Ridley talks about many important things in his novel; however, I feel as if the chapters of life, species, and environment are the most…

”(Lallanilla).This goes to show how much of our crops are actually genetically modified and displays the large dance-hall sized room of error that could occur. GMOs are extremely dangerous to the environmental balance of the earth. The pollen from a GMO plant can carry over its pollen to other plants and cause uncertain but unwanted…

Millions of bees are dying off, an average of 30% of all honey bee colonies dies each winter. We rely on bees to pollinate 90% of the world's food and to increase the yield by up to 30%. Many fruits and vegetables would become scarce and prohibitively expensive without the bees. If bees became extinct most of our food will no longer exist and if it did, it wouldn't be very affordable. Scientists have pointed out several causes behind this problem, including global warming, habitat loss,…

In recent years, primarily beginning in 2005, the abandonment of hives, massive deaths within colonies themselves, and significant losses of entire populations of A. mellifera have been reported (Callahan 2014). This massive disruption in the population of A. mellifera is known as Colony Collapse Disorder, and the cause is multifactorial. Two underlying causes of Colony Collapse Disorder are disease and malnutrition, but are not the primary reason for the massive death tolls observed in the…

My animal is a gray headed flying fox. It is a bat but is called a grey headed flying fox because, it looks like a fox with a gray head and it can fly. It is found along Australia's east coast from Rockhampton, Queensland in the north to Melbourne, Victoria in the south. It is called a megabat or (Megachiroptera) they are mammals which means animals that feed their young on milk. They like to “camp out” in trees, eucalypt forests and rainforests. Or in sclerophyll vegetation usually near water…

role. Most important of all though are the bees because they are one of the most commonly known creatures that pollinate plants. What they do is important because when they go from plant to plant they are picking up the pollen that plant produces and transferring some of that pollen to a different plant. This is one of the ways plants reproduce and in turn their reproduction is what keeps humans and animals alive. Some might argue that the ongoing decline of bees is a natural phenomenon and is…

The experimental method and the statistical approach that was used to test the hypothesis are appropriate in terms of analyzing the correlation between branch diameter and pollen and seed producing cone sizes across conifer species. A similar paper that helps support the methodologies used in this article titled, “Branching habit and the allocation of reproductive resources in conifers” also used methods like Corner’s rule…