A. The Ovaries :They are the female sex organs and lie on either side of the female abdominal cavity. Ovaries produce the female hormones Oestrogen/Estrogen and Progesterone. Oestrogen/Estrogen – It controls changes at female puberty, like the feminine voice, soft skin, and development in mamma...
Conifer seeds are naked because they develop exposed on the scales of female cones rather than within ovaries -- hard shells or fruit -- like angiosperm seeds. Instead of flowers and fruit, conifers make male sperm-producing cones -- pollen is plantsperm-- and female egg-producing cones. So...
Triploid individuals often play a key role in speciation by hybridization. An understanding of the gamete types (ploidy and genomic content) and stability of hybrid populations with triploid individuals is therefore of importance for exploring the role o
Flowers that contain either male or female parts are called unisexual plants whereas those with both male and female parts are called as bisexual or hermaphrodite plants. The female reproductive organs are called the gynoecium consisting of stigma style and ovaries. The ovaries contain ovules which ...
Scientists often categorize fruits based on their structure and seed type rather than just on the number of ovaries. Let's learn more about the most common categories of fruits. Fruit Achene This is a dry indehiscent fruit with a thin closed wall around a single seed. These are all ...
This pale bellflower, Campanula scouleri, has inferior ovaries. Some flowers havehalf-inferiorovaries. Here, the ovary is surrounded by the receptacle that bears the parts of the flower. Such flowers are said to beperigynousorhalf-epigynous. ...
They occur in somatic cells of animals and vascular plants which possess diploid number of chromosomes. Out of the two homologous chromosomes present in an individual, one is derived from the father parent and the other from the mother parent. The two homologous chromosomes of each type ...
“virgin fruit”. these types of fruits are generally seedless. during cultivation, parthenocarpy is introduced along with other plant hormones including gibberellic acid. it results in the maturation of the ovaries without the process of fertilization and produces bigger and pulpy fruits. this process...
Intraperitoneal.The drugs are delivered to the peritoneal cavity, which contains organs such as your liver, intestines, stomach, and ovaries. It is done during surgery or through a tube with a special port that is put in by your doctor. ...
in the undersea food chain, feeding on the organic detritus that would otherwise accumulate on the seafloor. Like jaw worms (see the previous slide), most of the 400 or so gastrotrich species are hermaphrodites—individuals equipped with both ovaries and testes, and thus capable of self-...