Questions and Answers

Identify in diagrams and images and describe the anthers and stigmas of a wind-pollinated flower

State the functions of the structures – sepals, petals, stamens, filaments, anthers, carpels, style, stigma, ovary and ovules

Identify in diagrams and images and draw the following parts of an insect-pollinated flower: sepals, petals, stamens, filaments, anthers, carpels, style, stigma, ovary and ovules

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of sexual reproduction: (a) to a population of a species in the wild (b) to crop production

State that nuclei of gametes are haploid and that the nucleus of a zygote is diploid

Describe fertilisation as the fusion of the nuclei of gametes

Describe sexual reproduction as a process involving the fusion of the nuclei of two gametes to form a zygote and the production of offspring that are genetically different from each other

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of asexual reproduction: (a) to a population of a species in the wild (b) to crop production

Identify examples of asexual reproduction in diagrams, images and information provided

Describe asexual reproduction as a process resulting in the production of genetically identical offspring from one parent