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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a flower and identifying its male and female parts. It describes how to remove the sepals and petals to expose the stamen and carpel. The stamen contains the filament and anther, which holds pollen. The carpel contains the stigma, style, and ovary, where pollen fertilizes eggs. It also explains how to identify monocots and dicots based on their petal and vein structures.

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a flower and identifying its male and female parts. It describes how to remove the sepals and petals to expose the stamen and carpel. The stamen contains the filament and anther, which holds pollen. The carpel contains the stigma, style, and ovary, where pollen fertilizes eggs. It also explains how to identify monocots and dicots based on their petal and vein structures.

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a flower and identifying its male and female parts. It describes how to remove the sepals and petals to expose the stamen and carpel. The stamen contains the filament and anther, which holds pollen. The carpel contains the stigma, style, and ovary, where pollen fertilizes eggs. It also explains how to identify monocots and dicots based on their petal and vein structures.

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    Flower Dissection

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    This document provides instructions for dissecting a flower and identifying its male and female parts. It describes how to remove the sepals and petals to expose the stamen and carpel. The stamen contains the filament and anther, which holds pollen. The carpel contains the stigma, style, and ovary, where pollen fertilizes eggs. It also explains how to identify monocots and dicots based on their petal and vein structures.

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    • Start by identifying each main outside part of the flower.

    • Beneath the petals, there should be smooth, leaf-like projections called sepals.
    • The male part of the flower is called the stamen; there are usually multiple
    stamens on each flower. The long stalk of the stamen is called the filament. At
    the top of the filament is the anther, which holds pollen.
    • The female part of the flower is called the carpel At the top of the pistil is
    the stigma, which collects pollen and carries it down though its hollow body,
    called the style, to the ovary, where the pollen fertilizes the flower’s eggs.
    • Some flowers have all male or all female parts (melons and pumpkins for
    example), and are called imperfect. Most flowers are perfect: they have both
    male and female flowers.
    STEPS
    • The first step in this dissection is to remove the sepals and petals, by
    pulling them down toward the stem. If you have a microscope, look
    at the tip of the petal on a low magnification. If you don’t have a
    microscope, use your magnifying glass to examine the petal. What is
    the petal’s texture like?
    • Next, remove the flower’s stamens; break or cut them off of the
    stem. Examine the pollen with your magnifying glass or microscope.
    Can you see what shape each pollen grain is? Make a drawing of the
    pollen.
    • As you dissect the flower, you should be able to identify the plant as either
    a monocot or a dicot. Almost all grasses are monocots, as are irises, lilies, and
    some other flowering plants. Monocots have petals in multiples of three and
    usually have parallel veins in their leaves. Most woody and common
    flowering plants are dicots. They have petals in multiples of four or five and
    have branched veins in their leaves.
    • After you have finished with the pollen, remove all parts except the carpel so
    that it remains alone on the stem. Carefully cut the carpel in half lengthwise,
    making sure that your fingers are out of the way. Use your magnifying glass
    to look at the inside of it. You should be able to see that the style is a long,
    hollow tube that carries pollen from the stigma to the ovary. You might be
    able to see tiny eggs, or ovules, in the carpel’s ovary.
    • If there are any buds or half-opened flowers that were on the same
    stalk as your flower, pull them open and identify any of the parts
    that you can find. Do any look different than on the opened flower?
    • Please note that sometimes a part of the flower, such as the anther
    on top of the stamen, will be broken off, so you might not be able to
    observe all parts. If this happens, try using another flower.

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