Question

preface of pollination​

Answer 1

Pollination has to happen before seeds can be made, so flowers have a range of ways to make sure it does. The male pollen cannot move to the female part of a flower on its own, so wind and animals are used to carry it instead. All the colours, shapes, sizes and smells of flowers are their ways of making it easy for the wind or animals to pick up and carry the pollen to the right female flower part.

Our resources will help you explore what pollination is, where it fits in the life cycle of flowering plants and some of the ways flowers try to make sure it happens.

Answer 2

Flowering plants need to get pollen from one flower to another, either within a plant for self-pollination or between plants of the same species for cross-pollination to occur. However, pollen can't move on its own, so animals or the wind (and water in rare cases) move the pollen for plants.