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Given below are two figures (A & B) of a certain part of a flower. Study the figures carefully and answer the following questions:
(a) Which major organ of a flower does the figure A represent ? What is the collective name of such organs ?
(b) Are the contents of the pollen sacs in B male or female ?
(c) Can you guess how the contents of the pollen sacs would come out ?

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Solution

a) A represents the stamen which is the male reproductive organ of the plant.
The collective name for the stamens is androecium.
b)The contents of the pollen sac are male and are male gametes.
c)The contents of the pollen sac come out when the pollen lands on the stigma and the pollen tube lead the male gametes to the ovary.

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