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Flower

The sexual reproductive structure of the angiosperms, typically consisting of gynoecium, androecium and perianth and the main stem bearing these parts.


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Re: What in the world??!?

This moth is really interesting. It has a coiled tongue that is three times the length of it's body in order to lap the nectar from the flower while hovering over it. It is not considered a pollinator because it never lands on the flower. It also comes back to the same patch of flowers day ...

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by redheadache
Tue Aug 11, 2009 5:36 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: What in the world??!?
Replies: 14
Views: 2918

Re: DNA replication, Cell division and Evolution

... 4) but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 For all flesh is as grass, and the glory of the flesh as the flower of grass, the grass withers and flower falls away, but the word of the Lord endures forever. I Peter 1 Receive the engrafted word with meekness, ...

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by AFJ
Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:52 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: DNA replication, Cell division and Evolution
Replies: 16
Views: 437

Re: Really puzzled with gene expresseion!!!!

Gene expression is managed by whether it's dominant or recessive. Unless it is incomplete dominance, then both are presented. For example, if a red flower is crossed with a white flower, the offspring will be pink flowers. If the inherited genes are codominant, both alleles are completely expressed, ...

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by star4ysh
Sun Apr 26, 2009 7:12 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Really puzzled with gene expresseion!!!!
Replies: 4
Views: 546

alternation of generations in mosses/ferns (haploid/diploid)

... to spores. In mosses, the actual plant that you see is the gamethophyte, whereas the sporophyte is just the thing that looks somewhat like a small flower, is a parasite on the gamethophyte and is basically an urn full of spores. In ferns, the gametophyte is reduced a lump of cells called the prothallus, ...

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by MrMistery
Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:54 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: alternation of generations in mosses/ferns (haploid/diploid)
Replies: 2
Views: 901

35S Promoter question

Hello, I have a problem with a review concerning Arabidopsis flower induction. TEM and CO are two antagonist genes : CO activates flowering, TEM represses flowering. The authors use 35S::TEM1/+ 35S::CO plants and say they flower at an intermediate time ...

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by Jelly
Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:42 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: 35S Promoter question
Replies: 0
Views: 363
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