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WHICH PART OF PLANTS HELP THEM TO REPRODUCE YOUNG ONES?
It can occur in plants through either budding, vegetative reproduction, fragmentation, parthenogenesis or apomixis.
 When certain parts of a plant get separated from the original plant, new plants grow from this and the process is called fragmentation. Budding causes cells to divide into two - parent and daughter cell. As the daughter cell develops completely, it separates itself from the parent and develops individually. The Hydra plant shows this process. Parthenogenisis is a form of asexual reproduction where in an unfertilized egg transforms into a new individual all together. Few plants have the ability to produce seeds, in spite of flowers being undeveloped. This is known as apomixis. In this process, the diploid cell in the ovule creates a new embryo. This eventually develops into a seed. An example of this process is found in dandelion. In Bryophyllum the leaves produces a new plant. Stem, Rhizome, Seed root etc and by tissue culture.
The flower is the reproductive organ of a flowering plant. Many seed plants form seeds inside flowers. For reproduction to take place, pollen grains from the male stamen must be carried to the female part of the flower, the pistil. Two ways that flowers are pollinated are by insects and by the wind. The insects like the bright petals and the sweet smell of the flowers. They land on the flowers to drink a liquid called nectar. When bees touch the stamen, pollen sticks to the bees. When the bees move around the flower, pollen is transfered to the pistil. Pollination leads to the making of one or more seeds in a flower.



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