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Spores and pollen are very light in weight and are always being scattered by the air easily on the land and here they come in contact with the other dipersal agents and carried away from one place to another place.
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What is the difference between spores and pollen?
Non-vascular plants such as mosses and ferns have Spores. Pollen - Flowering, vascular plants (angiosperms)
What features of a pollen grain makes it suited for being brushed off an insect?
The pollen grain is usually sticky and bright in color. These are the features that make the pollen grains suited for being brushed off by an insect.
How is the blackjack seed suited to its method of dispersal?
The spikes of this seeds get stick to our clothes
What are the 5 agents of seed dispersal?
air dispersal wind dispersal flying dispersal animal dispersal fur dispersal
Where are the gametophytes of gymnosperms found?
It is found within the pollen grains.
What is pollen assemblage?
the mixture of pollen and spores.
Do ferns have pollen?
No, ferns do not have pollen. They reproduce with spores.
Give two ways by which pollen grains are scattered?
animal dispersal and wind dispersal
The earliest means of pollen dispersal was?
Wind
Why is the wind a better dispersal for spores than for seeds?
Spores are lighter (make that less dense).
How do horsetail spores get dispersed?
The elaters on the individual sporangium help in the dispersal of the spores. Once the spores are released they then rely on the wind to carry them.
What function do spores perform for Fungi and Mold?
Reproduction and dispersal
Which structures are adaptations for dispersal in mosses and ferns?
spores
What is an anthropochore?
An anthropochore is a species which depends on arthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal - the dispersal of seeds or spores by humans.
Choose the best definition of this term.palynology?
the study of the spores and pollen of plants to recreate an environment
Do pollen grains develop spores?
Yes they do.
Do fungi have seed dispersal?
Yes, but fungi disperse spores not seed.
