The Story of the Seed

There are many different parts in a flower that need to work together in order to produce a new flower. In a flowering plant, in order for it to be able to reproduce, there needs to be a sperm and an egg cell. In the case of a flower, the pollen grains contain sperm cells while the ovules inside of the ovary are the egg cells. The goal is for the sperm cell to reach the egg cell and this occurs during pollination. Through various events such as bees or butterflies drinking nectar from many flowers, to just the wind blowing pollen towards a flower of the same kind, pollination is the able to occur. Once grains of pollen reach the flower, they then grasp onto the stigma of the plant. Once on the stigma, the pollen grain sprouts a long tube into the ovary and into one of the ovules. After the ovule has been fertilized by the pollen, a new seed begins to sprout inside of the ovary. This an image of the flower itself. As seen, the major parts of flower or that are most visible are the y