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The sperm in the pollen tube meets the egg. This process is called fertilisation.
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Flowers have male parts called stamens. Each stamen has a filament and an anther. Stamens usually occur outside pistils.
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Flowering plants produce flowers of different shapes, sizes and colours.
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If the seeds get water, oxygen and warmth they grow into new plants.
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Pollen is made in the anther. Pollen moved by wind is light. Sticky pollen is moved by insects and birds.
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Pollen is transferred to the stigma. This process is called pollination.
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The pistils are the female parts. A pistil has a stigma, style and ovary. Inside the ovary are ovules.
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The pollen grain sends a tube down the style to the egg inside the ovule of the ovary.
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The fertilised egg becomes the embryo, the ovule becomes the seed. The fruit contains the seeds.
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The seeds are scattered or dispersed by the plant itself, wind, water or animals.
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