Blog post #7- Marco Dal Canto

     Here is my brassica plant flower.  All of the photos below will be of this flower and its certain parts under magnification. It will show its majors functions.

      This is an image that shows the anthers that has stigma on it. The stigmas part of the female reproductive system and the anthers is part of the male reproductive system. The other side of the anthers contain pollen, which contain sperm cells. The anthers rub the pollen off on a bee or other animals that pollinate, so then the pollen can be spread.

    This is the stigma of the flower. The stigma is attached to a circle shape thing called the style that is part of the ovaries. These parts make the part of the plant called the pistil. Its main purpose is to try to get pollen from other flowers off of pollinators, wind, and water.

This is the ovule. The ovule is inside the ovary of the plant so to get this photo we had to cut it open with a tool Mr. Bursch gave us. The ovule contains egg cells, the female gamete. These little eggs will get fertilized once sperm reaches them. These cells come together when they are fertilized and become zygote. This zygote will keep dividing until it becomes a seed with the ovary over it again.  This will become another plant.

Here is a photo of the pollen. We didn't take a flower that had not bloomed yet because there would not be any pollen.