AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Plants that are pollinated by animals often are brightly colored and have a strong smell to attract the animal pollinators. Another way plants are pollinated is by the wind. The wind picks up pollen from one plant and blows it onto another. Plants that are pollinated by wind often have long stamens and pistils.

Detailed explanation-2: -Over millions of years, flowers have developed scents, colors, markings and shapes to attract certain pollinators, and certain pollinators have developed characteristics such as long tongues or beaks that enable them to reach the nectar in differently shaped flowers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pollination is the act of transferring pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma. The goal of every living organism, including plants, is to create offspring for the next generation. One of the ways that plants can produce offspring is by making seeds.

Detailed explanation-4: -Flowers are brightly coloured in order to attract insects for pollination.

Detailed explanation-5: -When a bee stops at a flower to gather nectar and pollen, it contacts the anthers. Pollen from the anthers attaches to hairs on the bee’s body. When the bee moves on, it carries that pollen to the stigma of the next flower it visits. This transfer of pollen between flowers results in pollination.