Blog Post 10: Anthers and Stigmas and Styles, Oh My!

Blog Post 10:
 For this blog post, we were asked to dissect a flower from our garden and dissect it. Beforehand, We read about the reproductive anatomy of a flower. The male parts of the flower are called anthers, and the female parts are called ovaries, styles, and stigmas. We were asked to look at the different parts of the flower under a microscope and this is what we found. 

                          This image shows the carpel. The carpel contains the          

       style and the stigma. The stigma is the green round tip of 

       the center tube, and the center tube is the style.

          The curly long outer tubes are the anthers.The anthers are          where the pollen is produced.

        These pods or capsules are  inside of the 'ovary'. The ovary is at the bottom of the style, and these hold the fertile female cells.

              This is the flower before we dissected it. It is a broccoli flower. 

        We took a few pieces of pollen from the anthers and looked at it under a microscope. This is the pollen at 40x.
      Flowers reproduce within themselves, which means they are angiosperms. Each flower contains all the necessary female and male parts to reproduce. The anthers are the male parts, and they produce and store the flowers pollen. The female part of a flower is called the carpel. It is the innermost part of the flower and is home to all of the female reproductive organs. Inside of the carpel is the style, and inside of the base of the style are the ovaries. The ovaries are responsible for producing female gametophytes for the flowers reproduction. The carpel leo contains the stigma, which is located at the tops of the style. The stigma is a sticky ball that is responsible for collecting pollen. Pollination begins once the female and male parts have worked together to produce gametophytes and pollen.There are many types of pollination, such as pollen being spread thru the wind, and for others pollen can be spread by animals such as bees. Overall, the flower is able to thrive with only the anatomy in itself.