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Or, with bisexual and at least one of male and female flowers on the same plant. [2] Protandrous: (of dichogamous plants) having male parts of flowers developed before female parts, e.g. having flowers that function first as male and then change to female or producing pollen before the stigmas of the same plant are receptive. [6]
One example is that male flowers are often larger than female flowers, at least in some species. Although this is presumably achieved through resource allocation mechanisms, it is unlikely that resource allocation from lower cost of androecium than gynoecium leading to higher expenditure on corolla in males, is a general and complete ...
They had pollen grains that contained the male gametes for protection of the sperm during the process of transfer from the male to female parts. It is believed that insects fed on the pollen, and plants thus evolved to use insects to actively carry pollen from one plant to the next. Seed producing plants, which include the angiosperms and the ...
The most primitive flowers are thought to have had a variable number of flower parts, often separate from (but in contact with) each other. The flowers would have tended to grow in a spiral pattern, to be bisexual (in plants, this means both male and female parts on the same flower), and to be dominated by the ovary (female part). As flowers ...
Male and female flowers evolve from hermaphroditic flowers [19] via andromonoecy or gynomonoecy. [20]: 148 In amaranths monoecy may have evolved from hermaphroditism through various processes caused by male sterility genes and female fertility genes. [20]: 150 Monoecy may be an intermediate state between hermaphroditism and dioecy. [21]
In dioecious species, where individuals are either male or female for their entire lifetimes, the allocation decision lies between producing male or female offspring. In sequential hermaphrodites , where individuals function as one sex early in life and then switch to the other, the allocation decisions lie in what sex to be first and when to ...
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The pistils of a flower are considered to be composed of one or more carpels. [ note 1 ] A carpel is the female reproductive part of the flower—usually composed of the style , and stigma (sometimes having its individual ovary , and sometimes connecting to a shared basal ovary) —and usually interpreted as modified leaves that bear structures ...