alleryStart learning →In pollination, pollen travels from the anther to which part?
- Root
- Stigma
- Sepal
- Petal
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Correct answer: B. Stigma
Pollen is moved from the anther to the stigma of the carpel.
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In pollination, pollen travels from the anther to which part?Read the answer and worked solution →A flower is white, strongly scented and opens at night. Which visitor suits it best?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is the most common kind of abiotic pollination?Read the answer and worked solution →An underwater plant has floating flowers that pass pollen along the surface. This is pollination by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why can wind-pollinated plants get by with small, plain flowers?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is an example of biotic pollination?Read the answer and worked solution →What is pollination by insects called?Read the answer and worked solution →Farms near natural habitat often give higher crop yield. Why?Read the answer and worked solution →A pollen grain lands on a stigma. What grows from it?Read the answer and worked solution →The reproductive structures of conifers are borne on what?Read the answer and worked solution →Pine pollen reaches the female cone mostly by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Why are pollen grains dried out and light?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tiny organisms produced oxygen that first helped fill Earth's air?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did the ancestors of land plants first live?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group contains the first seed plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group makes up most of all plant species?Read the answer and worked solution →What is the scientific study of plants called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of these is an abiotic factor affecting plant growth?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of conditions can damage or kill plants?Read the answer and worked solution →Which two tissues carry materials through stems and leaf veins?Read the answer and worked solution →Which plant product is used as a building material?Read the answer and worked solution →A strangler fig starts on a tree branch. What happens later?Read the answer and worked solution →Bromeliads hold water in their leaf bases. What can this water support?Read the answer and worked solution →A seedling's roots are cut off. What can it no longer do well?Read the answer and worked solution →A very dry pollen grain must do what before it can germinate?Read the answer and worked solution →A plant is pollinated by butterflies in dry weather and by rain splashes in wet weather. Its pollination is?Read the answer and worked solution →Which group of mammals includes some pollinators?Read the answer and worked solution →Which kind of animals form the majority of pollinators?Read the answer and worked solution →Most flowering plants rely on what for pollination?Read the answer and worked solution →Chloroplasts came from a partnership between a cell and which organisms?Read the answer and worked solution →
Worked practice questions
A flower is white, strongly scented and opens at night. Which visitor suits it best?
- Day-flying bee
- Night-flying moth
- Heavy rainfall
- Daytime beetle
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Correct answer: B. Night-flying moth
Flowers pollinated by moths or bats are typically white, strongly scented and open at night.
Which is the most common kind of abiotic pollination?
- By wind
- By water
- By rain
- By snow
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Correct answer: A. By wind
About 98% of abiotic pollination is done by wind.
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