What Are Flowers For?

Posted on August 15, 2006 4 Comments
Photo of flower Glacier National Park

What Are Flowers For? by D. Wheat

flowers serve two basic purposes:

  • they package genetic material (into pollen and ovules) and help move it around so it can combine to produce the seeds for the next generation, and
  • they enclose those seeds in a fruit to help them successfully grow into a new plant

Photo: by John Hunter aka curiouscat -from Glaicer National Park

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  3. Mark

    The also provide food for a variety of insects, and it is those insects that are the delivery men for all the genetic material.

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