Biology (Mader), 10th Edition

Chapter 27: Flowering Plants: Reproduction

Learning Outcomes

After studying this chapter, you should be able to accomplish the following outcomes.

Sexual Reproductive Strategies

1. Explain an overall diagram of the flowering plant life cycle, with emphasis on adaptation to the land environment.
2. Label a diagram of a flower, and give a function for each part labeled.
3. Identify the male gametophyte and the female gametophyte of flowering plants.
4. Describe the outcome of double fertilization in flowering plants.

5. Divide development of the embryo into six stages, and label the three main parts of a seed.

6. Give examples of fleshy and dry fruits. Distinguish between simple, compound, aggregate, and accessory fruits.
7. Compare and contrast germination of a bean plant and a corn plant. Compare a bean seed to a corn kernel.

8. Give examples to show that plants can reproduce asexually.
9. Describe how tissue culture can be used to clone plants with desirable traits.