Unlike animals, plants don’t need a male and a female to reproduce because their flowers have both male parts and female parts. Fran: Flowers are colourful and they smell really nice ...

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The genes of male and female placentas have marked differences in how they are expressed, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other institutions. These ...

In the plant kingdom, survival often depends on adaptation, and in that regard, some plants have managed to develop truly ingenious and curious systems. If there are animals that pretend to be flowers ...

In flowering plants, male and female reproductive structures can be found in the same individual plant. The organ of sexual reproduction is the flower. Male gametes are found in pollen grains and ...