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Living things
Plant reproduction and nutrition
Reproduction
Some plants have flowers. Their reproductive organs are inside the flower. Flowers can look different
but all flowers have the same parts.
Why are flowers
colourful? Why do
plants need soil?
1
Read and find out:
a)
how many parts a flower has
b)
what plants need to make their own food.
R E A D & T H I N K
The
pistil
is the female
reproductive organ. It has
ovules
inside.
First, an insect takes pollen
from a stamen to a pistil.
Then, inside the pistil, the pollen
joins an ovule to make a seed.
Next, the petals fall off the
flower and the pistil grows
around the seed into a fruit.
Finally, the fruit falls on the
ground and the seed grows
into a new plant.
The
stamens
are the male
reproductive organs. They
have
pollen
at the top.
The
calyx
is made of
sepals
.
Sepals are green. They
protect the flower.
The
corolla
is made of
petals
. Petals are different
colours to attract insects.
