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Flowers to seeds
Words to learn: flower • pollen • pollination • seed
Flowers are the reproductive parts of many plants. Pollen has to reach the right part of a flower before seeds can form, and insects or wind often help to move it.
HOW DOES POLLEN MOVE?
Bees and other insects can carry pollen between flowers. Wind moves pollen in some plants.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
After pollination and fertilisation, seeds begin to develop. In many plants the ovary grows into a fruit around them.
TRY IT YOURSELF
Look closely at a flower. Can you find the pollen-bearing anthers and the sticky stigma?
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