By: Reem Addam 7E Plants can reproduce both Sexually and Asexually. Pictures: • http://www.troy.k12.ny.u s/old%20sites/thsbiology /skinny/skinny_reproduct ion.html • http://users.rcn.com/jki mball.ma.ultranet/Biolog yPages/A/AsexualReprod uction.html Asexual reproduction means reproduction in which a cell doubles its contents and then divides into two identical cells. Information: http://groups.molbiosci.northwestern.edu/holmgren/Glossary/D efinitions/Def-A/asexual_reproduction.html Picture: http://www.saburchill.com/ans02/chapters/chap051.html Budding in hydra Budding in yeast Spore Formation in Bread Mould Binary Fission in Bacteria Vegetative propogation in potatoes, in strawberries etc… Check out this link it will tell you all about budding in hydra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5oHMjGqjyo http://www.labtechi ndia.net/product/Bi ology/bl-83.jpeg Look at this diagram: Picture: http://www.fungionline. org.uk/images/1intro/y east1.JPG Pollination is the process by which pollen is transferred in plants. Thereby allowing Fertilization and sexual reproduction. Information: http://en.wikipedia.o rg/wiki/Pollination Picture: http://www.myschool house.com/courses/ C/2/Images/BeeFlower.jpg Fertilisation is the fusion of pollen grain nucleus and ovule nucleus. Picture: http://www.homedepotgarde nclub.com/media/300874/ls _bg_top9fruit_img9.jpg There are 4 different of seed dispersal and they are: Water Wind Explosion Animals Seeds which float are carried away by water. Information: http://www.zeph yrus.co.uk/Water dispersal.html Picture: http://rainforest australia.com/pic s/Fruits21.jpg Some seeds are carried to a new place by the wind. Information: http://www.zephyru s.co.uk/Winddispers al.html Picture: http://blog.lib.umn. edu/michaels/thurs aft/Wind%20Dispers al%20dn.JPG Some plants have pods that explode when ripe and shoot out the seeds. Information: http://www.zephyrus. co.uk/explosions.html Picture: http://www.gtchild.co. uk/content/images/st ories/green_plants/ex plode_pod.jpg The animal eats the fruit but only the juicy part is digested. It also hooks on the animal. Information: http://www.zephyru s.co.uk/Animal%20 Dispersal.html Picture: http://www.fieldstudiescouncil.org/urbanec o/images/019Merry.jpg There are 2 kinds of seeds Dicot Seed Monocot Seed Picture: http://www.s proutpeople.c om/kids/imag es/seed.dicot. monocot.wht. big.gif A bean seed is a Dicot. • Seed coat • The bean seed has a split going down the middle of the seed. • The two large parts of the seeds are called cotyledons. Cotyledons supply food for the young plant as its growing. Information: http://library.thinkquest.org/ 3715/seeds.html Picture: http://library.thinkquest.org/ 3715/dicot.gif Monocots are seeds that only have 1 cotyledon, such as the corn seed, The corn seed has a seed coat but it does not slip off as easily as the bean seed does. It stays in one piece. Information: http://library.thinkquest. org/3715/seeds.html Picture: http://www.ext.colostate. edu/mg/gardennotes/im ages/137-1.jpg Air Water Sunshine Soil Air Water Sunshine Soil Air picture: http://eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/images/air1_sm.jpg Water Picture: http://www.3dtexture.net/data/media/10/Fresh_water_ocean_texture.jpg Sunshine Picture: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/lnEwRLYS4Po/TVvMVTzGXTI/AAAAAAAADPs/GQ8W2F8XXkE/s1600/sunshine1.jpg Soil picture: http://www.uvm.edu/~pss/HandsSoilPlant.jpg Germination of seeds is when the seeds grow into a plant. Picture: http://www.co coponics.co/w pcontent/upload s/2011/02/ger mination.jpg