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Blog post #7 -Sophia

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          Fertilization in a any type of flower. It happens when 2 flowers ( one male and one Female) take  their 2 haploid cells and come together to create a diploid zygote. The gamete cells each has one pair of their parents chromosomes. The only way to grow an embryo is that the 2 haploid cells have to come together as one. Each different flowers as it own pistil (female part) and a stamen (male part). Even though every flower has these 2 parts they still need a pollinator (bee or the wind for example) to carry the pollen grain (sperm) to another flowers pistil. the pollen grain starts its journey on the anther (the top of the stamen) and is full of the flowers sperm. Then it waits for a pollinator to come down ,and when it starts to rub up against the anther it's letting the pollen grain stick to them. Then it stays on their until the pollinator travels to another plant. Here the grain sticks to the stigma of that plant and stretches or shrinks the pollen tube depending on the