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Bot GPT 4-o mini Here are the answers to your questions:
**Question 1:** The process by which plants produce offspring (babies) after pollination occurs.
- **Answer:** fertilization
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**Question 2:** Sex cells: Male gamete=sperm, Female gamete=egg.
- **Answer:** gamete
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**Question 3:** When an animal is present in the area of a flower and pollen is transferred from its fur to another plant within the area, we call this process.
- **Answer:** pollination
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**Question 4:** Plants are very important to our ecosystems as they help change carbon dioxide into oxygen. The process of the plant cell taking in CO2, sunlight, and water to produce its own sugar and give off O2 is a process we call...
- **Answer:** photosynthesis
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**Question 5:** As plants are able to make their own food and pass different gases through their leaves, there is a tiny opening (or pore) that is used for this exchange of gases and/or water vapor; found mostly on the under-surface of plant leaves.
- **Answer:** stomata
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**Question 6:** Moss is found in damp cool areas and has a different way of reproducing. A reproductive process that involves only one parent and produces offspring that are identical to the parent. This reproductive process is called...
- **Answer:** asexual reproduction
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**Question 7:** This requires visual identification, which I cannot provide. However, common parts you might need to label include the anther, stigma, and pistil.
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**Question 8:** Describe how a plant is fertilized (an example response):
When a plant is fertilized, the process begins with the anther, which produces pollen. Pollinators, such as bees or butterflies, transfer pollen from one flower's anther to the stigma of another flower. The pollen travels down the style and reaches the ovule located in the ovary of the pistil. Here, fertilization occurs when the sperm from the pollen merges with the egg, leading to the development of seeds.
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**Question 9:** Provide an example of advantages to sexual reproduction versus asexual reproduction (an example response):
One advantage of sexual reproduction is genetic diversity, which allows for a greater chance of survival in changing environments. For instance, sexually reproduced offspring may inherit different traits that help them adapt to new challenges such as diseases or climate changes. In contrast, asexual reproduction produces clones that may be unable to cope with environmental shifts, posing a risk for the population.
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**Question 10:** The process of photosynthesis as a chemical equation:
6 CO2 + 6 H2O + sunlight → C6H12O6 + 6 O2
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