Sunday, November 15, 2009

Where is the stamen from the apple flower in the apple iteself? (I DON'T MEAN SEPAL)?

My Biology teacher is asking me this and I can't find it in my notes, so I looked online. However I can't find it there either. Is she simply making things up???

Where is the stamen from the apple flower in the apple iteself? (I DON'T MEAN SEPAL)?
The flowers have many parts that are crucial to the formation of apples:





• Sepals - five green, leaflike structures that make up a flower's calyx


• Petals - the part of a flower that attracts insects by their color and scent


• Stamens - the male reproductive part made up of an anther and filament


• Anther - the part of the stamen that produces pollen


• Filament - the stalk of the stamen


• Pistil - female part of the flower, made up of a stigma, style, and an ovary


• Stigma - the top of a flower's pistil


• Style - the part of a pistil that connects the stigma and the ovary


• Ovary - the rounded base of the pistil, inside of which are five compartments each containing two ovules, female reproductive cells that can become seeds
Reply:The ripened ovary becomes the fleshy apple containing the fertilsed ovules (seeds - apple pips). The petals and sepals fall away.


The shrivelled remains of stamens sometimes stay attached to the fruit. This is the little crispy bit at the opposite 'end' to the stalk.
Reply:the stamen has wilted and died. the spermatozoa has fertilized the ovum and endosperm... nothings left..








maybe...





and for some apple, there is some stamen, left at the bottom side of the apple, which are looked like a little black hair.


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