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The insect reaches down into the flower to take a drink of nectar. Then it leaves the flower but in doing so, brushes against the pollen. When the insect travels to another flower, the pollen gets deposited there which results in cross-pollination.
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How does the pollen grains tube reach the ovary?
it is either get blown by the wind to another flower or carried by an insect.
What did Darwin say was the cause of the origin of new species?
In a nut shell the reason is because of changing conditions. For example there is a flower that if very long and for an insect to be able to get to the nectur so the flower can reproduce the insect would have to have a very long "mouth" to reach the bottom of the flower. He predicted that such an insect exsisted and sure enough someone finally discovered the insect that drank from the flower about 20 years after his death, long "mouth" and all.
How do think pollen grains reach the pistil?
Either randomly on the wind, or when a flying insect covered in pollen brushes against the pistil as it flies from flower to flower.
What attract insect to flower?
The thing that attracts an insect to a flower is the nectar inside the flower.
Name two things that attract the insect to the flower?
The two things that attract an insect to a flower are the smell and the color.
What is insect polination?
Insect polination is when the insect carries a pollen from one flower to anothe
What attract insectes to a flower?
The thing that attracts an insect to a flower is the nectar inside the flower.
What will happen ifan insect crawls into a flower and then goes to another?
If an insect crawls into one flower and then goes to another they are likely to pollinate the second flower that they visit. Pollen tends to stick to insects and be carried from flower to flower.
What draws the insect to the flower?
pollen
How does nasturtium flower adapted to insect pollination?
Is the nasturtium flower wind or insect pollinated since it is also used to repell insects .
Insect go to flower to flower to gather what eggs or nectar?
pollen
What might happen if the same insect goes to another flower?
the insect that goes to that flower will go to another flower. but if a bee goes to a flower with another bee on it that bug will let the other bee in to get pollen
