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Plant organs

Year 7 Knowledge Organiser – Plant Plants have different organs to do different


Reproduction jobs:
Leaves – carry out photosynthesis and
make food
Key words: Flower structure Roots – absorb water and anchor the plant
Stem – supports the leaves and transports
Pollen – contains the male water to them
sex cells. Produced by the Flower – carries out sexual reproduction
stamens
Ovule (egg) – female sex Pollination
cell, found in the ovary
Pollination – the transfer of This occurs when the pollen grain lands
pollen from the stamens to
on the stigma and the nucleus fuses
the stigma, either in the
same flower or a different with the ovule to form a seed. It can be
one carried out by insects, animals or the
Fertilisation – the joining of a wind.
pollen grain nucleus and an
ovule to form an embryo
Seed – structure containing
the embryo of a new plant
Fruit – the ovary develops Seed dispersal
into this after fertilisation – it After fertilisation plants have to spread their seeds
surrounds the seed so they can grow in a new place. There are
Carpel – all the female parts many ways that plants do this.
of a flower, made up of the
stigma, style and ovary By the wind

Websites that might be useful: By animals eating them Insect pollinated flowers have bright
https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/ colours, scents and nectar to attract
guides/zs7thyc/revision/1 By making them stick to animal fur insects.

Extension ideas to research: By explosion or quick release Wind pollinated flowers have long anthers,
produce lots of pollen and have feathery
How do coconut palms stigmas to catch the pollen.
disperse their seeds? Look up
the squirting cucumber plant!

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