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Asked by anon-357660 to ilma on 15 Mar 2023.
Question: How do plants create other plants?
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ilma qonaah answered on 15 Mar 2023:
Plants can reproduce sexually in a process called pollination, it’s when a pollen (the male counterpart) is being carried by wind or insects to stigma (the female counterpart), eventually producing seeds.
Plants can also reproduce asexually, it’s when a part of plants (like the stem) is being used to grow other plants.
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Patricia commented on :
Plants (like humans and bugs and cats and sheep) are made up of cells–tiny little bags of water and goo.
In a cell is DNA. DNA is a chemical, but it acts like a big stack of instructions–imagine a huge binder full of to-do lists….but all the pages are out of order and some are stuck together!!
That’s not very useful. All cells have the same big binder, but it’s up to each cell to organise the binder properly, unstick the right pages, and shuffle unimportant pages to the back– so the to-do lists are clear and ready to read. A cell in the petal will make sure the to-do list for “making flower color” is ready to read. A cell in the root will make sure the to-do list to “suck up water” is ready.
To make a seed, a plant needs sex cells. Sex cells have organised the big binder of to-do lists so that when they meet another sex cell, they have instructions to “grab on, combine, and make a baby plant (an embyro)”!
For the plant to grow, the different cells in the baby plant rearrange the binder so different to-do lists are on top. So one cell will be in charge of making roots, another in charge of making leaves. It takes a lot of work and a lot of cells!
You were made in a similar way too! 🙂