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Pollination Patterns
Pollination in flowers
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
10/25/2010

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Term
both male and female parts
Definition
perfect or bisexual or hermaphroditic
Term
self-pollination
Definition
Pollen produced within the flower may fall on a stigma in the same flower and the sperm that it carries may fertilize the egg in the ovule
Term
cleistogamy
Definition
anther matures, pollen is shed, and the stigma is receptive before the flower opens
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protandry
Definition
pollen is shed before the stigma is receptive
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protogyny
Definition
stigma is receptive prior to pollen shed
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staminate
Definition
Only contain androecium (male flowers)
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pistillate
Definition
Only contain gynoecium (female flowers)
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dioecious
Definition
Plants with only all female or all male flowers
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