Lesson 2 of 6

Pollination

Goal: Compare insect and wind pollination.

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A bumblebee dusted with yellow pollen, feeding on a purple flower
Pollen sticks to a visiting insect.
A grass flower head with small yellow anthers dangling outside it
Grass lets the wind take its pollen.

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma. Insects or the wind carry it.

  • The pollen can land on a stigma of the same plant or of another plant of the same kind.
  • Other animals pollinate too. Some flowers are visited by birds or bats.

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Key words in this lesson

Anther Makes the pollen

Stigma The sticky tip where pollen lands

Pollen Grains that contain the male sex cells

Pollination The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma

For teachers: AQA 3.9.2