Post No.7: Plant Dissection.

Dissections are inherently important to science. Though you may not always be cutting into an animal, that doesn't rule out the fact that a dissection allows a person to understand and interact with the lesson. As evidenced by the title of this blog post, our class has conducted a plant dissection. The pictures of a Broccoli flower's different organelles  serve as a timeline of the dissection.

An overhead view of a Broccoli flower.
From this view, you can see the very tips of the
Anthers emerging from just beyond the veil of the
flower's petals.

This an Anther, which functions as the male reproductive
organ and is where pollen is produced. The pollen is released from the
Anthers and travels to a nearby plant, where it descends down the Stigma
and into the Ovules [Below].

This is the Stigma, the female reproductive organ, of the Broccoli
 flower, where the pollen travels down the shaft and enters
the ovaries [Below].

This is a close-up of the ovary of the Broccoli flower. Notice the
 small, white jellybean shaped objects, these are the Ovaries,
which are where the flower's offspring develop.

As shown in the photographs above, flower reproduction is first started by the Stigma, the male reproductive organ, which releases the pollen. The pollen then travels to the stigma, and being stuck to the tip, travels down the tube of the stigma, entering the ovules and pollinating the flower. When the time for reproduction arrives, the flower then produces pollen and the cycle repeats.