Pollination Animation

In this step you will learn about pollination and plant reproduction. This will help you learn how the scientists pollinated the parent plants to create the seeds for the first generation of offspring.

What is Pollen? (Slide 1 of 3)

Mature flowers produce pollen. Pollen contains genetic information that is passed down to the next generation.

Click "Zoom" to see the pollen grains of this flower.

Click "Zoom" again to see the nuclei of the pollen grains.

Genetic information is contained in the nucleus of each pollen grain.




Click "Reset" to zoom out and watch again.

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When you are finished, click "Next".



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