Blog Post #10

 This is a picture of the whole Brassica olereacea flower from one of the plants in the garden.  This type of flower goes through meiosis for reproduction. Not every plant goes through meiosis but this particular flower does. Meiosis is the process f which the number of chromosomes per cell is cut in half through the separation of homologs chromosomes in a diploid cell.

 This image shows the anthers. An anther is the flower structure where the haploid male gametophytes are being produced. Anthers are at the tip of each filament. A filament is a long thin stalk that helps support the anther. An anther is an oval sac where meiosis takes place.

 In this image the carpel was cut in half. The little circles inside are called ovules. An ovule is a structure in the seed cones where the female gametophytes are developed. These are unfertilized eggs waiting for meiosis to begin so that the flower reproduces.

Here is the carpel of the flower.  The carpel is the innermost part of the entire flower that produces the female gametophytes. Carpels are also known as pistils. Each carpel forms an ovary which contains one or even more ovules where the female gametophytes are made.