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Are bright in colour
Produce sugary nectar
Are large in size
Have a scent
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Is a hibiscus an insect pollinated flower or a wind pollinated flower?
Hibiscus is actually pollinated by hummingbirds! Red flowers always most likely are because birds can see red better than insects (they're better at the blue and purple part of the spectrum). Also, the pollen is far away from the nectar. If a hummingbird puts its tongue into the flower, the pollen will be deposited on its back. An insect would never touch the pollen when crawling into the flower to the nectar. ^^
How does pollination help or affect flowers?
If the flowers weren't pollinated the plants would not be able to produce fruit or seed.
Does flowers have insect pollinated flower?
Flowers are structures on a type of plants called angiosperms, which usually exploit a strategy involving a flower, called biotic pollination which requires another organism (vector) typically, although not always, an insect. By contrast, abiotic pollinators like grasses and conifers would use other means like wind or rarely water to effect pollination. Biotic non-insect pollinators may rely on birds or bats for transport, but the great majority of pollen vectors are insects.
Wind pollinated flowers do not make nectar why?
Nectar is produced by flowers to attract insects, bats or birds that will help to carry its pollen to other plants (and bring fresh pollen to it). If a plant is pollinated in the wind, then it doesn't need to spend the energy to make nectar.
Flowers that are pollinated by the wind have smaller petals and sepals that are pollinated by insects or animals why are small petals and sepals an advantage to these flowers?
Answer 1: If a bloom has large petals and sepals, it's much harder to pollinate the flower. They would just get in the way. Answer 2: Petals and sepals are used to attract pollinators and give them a place to land. Wind pollinated plants don't need to attract pollinators or provide landing space for them. Thus, there is no use for large sepals and petals. .
Why would plant die if bees dont exsiste?
Most flowers rely on insects to transfer pollen from one flower to another. Bees do more pollination than any other insect. So if bees disappeared, a lot of plants would not be pollinated and would not produce any seed.
Why would a plant pollinated by a bat not require colourful flowers?
it would not require colourful flowers because bats are less attracted by the colour of the flower and mainly becasue they visit the plants at night (dont see the colour)
In many flowers the pistils and stamens reach maturity at different times considering what you know about pollination why would this be an advantage to this plant?
the advantage, or the scheme, is to be pollinated with pollen from another plant. -Ben Newcombe-
What would happen if there were no flowers?
Without FlowersWithout flowers, the world would be less beautiful. More importantly, flowers are the part many garden plants, and other plants as well, where pollination occurs. If there were no flowers, there would be no beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, watermelon, cantaloupe, squash, and lots of other vegetables. Fruit trees also are pollinated through flowers, so without flowers, we would also have no apples, pears, oranges and other fruits.
Would you expect pollen grains of wind -pollinated flowers to be sticky?
The pollen grains of wind pollinated plants are generally smooth and light. These are not sticky to avoid clump-sing. These are produced in large numbers to ensure landing some pollen on the feathery or netted stigmas.
Do you agree that every creature plays a role in the ecosystem?
Yes, they each have their own special job that only they can do. For example, without bees, although they are pesky, there would be no pollinated flowers of honey.
Why did Mendel prevent his plants from self-pollinating?
To control the crossing of the traits.Because his experiments were aimed at what happened when you cross pollinated the plants with different characteristics. Self-pollination would have meant that his experiments would not have worked.
