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Investigate How Pollen Tubes Grow

In this worksheet, students will be taken through an investigation to generate pollen tubes from pollen grains and then look at the variables involved in performing the experiment.

'Investigate How Pollen Tubes Grow' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 3

Year:  Year 7 Science worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Biology: Structure and Function of Living Organisms

Curriculum subtopic:   Reproduction

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Worksheet Overview

Mrs. Bates's science class had been studying how plants reproduce and also how to use a microscope, so in today's lesson they are going to try growing pollen tubes.

 

In flowers, when the pollen arrives on the female stigma, it starts to grow a tube down towards the ovary in order to fertilize the ovule and form the beginnings of the seed.

 

Flower diagram

 

Let's join the class and see how they get on.

Want a bit more help with this before you begin? Why not watch this short video?

 

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