MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT
Earn 100

The diagram shows the life cycle of a tomato plant.

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Describe the processes that take place in the life cycle of a tomato plant. Use the diagram to help you. 

Important Questions on Sexual Reproduction in flowering Plants

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT

Complete the labels in the diagram using these words:

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Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT
Name two parts of a flower that are male. 
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Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT
What is the function of the ovary?
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Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT

Moninder wants to find out the best temperature for mustard seeds to germinate. He uses three Petri dishes. Each dish has a layer of moist tissue paper covered with 30 mustard seeds. Moninder puts one dish in a warm cupboard, one in a cool cupboard and one in a refrigerator. He waters all of the seeds regularly for 21 days. His results for the first four days are shown in the table.

  Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds
  Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
Warm cupboard 0 5 20 24
Cool cupboard 0 2 8 14
Refrigerator 0 0 0 0

How many seeds had germinated by day 4 in the warm cupboard?

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT

Moninder wants to find out the best temperature for mustard seeds to germinate. He uses three Petri dishes. Each dish has a layer of moist tissue paper covered with 30 mustard seeds. Moninder puts one dish in a warm cupboard, one in a cool cupboard and one in a refrigerator. He waters all of the seeds regularly for 21 days. His results for the first four days are shown in the table.

  Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds Number of germinated mustard seeds
  Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
Warm cupboard 0 5 20 24
Cool cupboard 0 2 8 14
Refrigerator 0 0 0 0

What conclusion can you draw from Moninder's results? 

MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT

The diagram shows the flower of a lily plant. This lily is pollinated by insects.

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Which of the following are common characteristics of insect-pollinated plants? 
MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT
Explain why dry lily seeds kept in a seed packet do not germinate.
MEDIUM
Lower Secondary Stage 9
IMPORTANT

Imran has three different seeds, each with a different shape. He wants to investigate which seed will be dispersed over the furthest distances. He drops each seed from a height of 2 metres and measures how far the seed travels horizontally.

Seed  Distance travelled (cm) Distance travelled (cm) Distance travelled (cm)
A 74 48 68
B 3 6 4
C 0 1 1

How could lmran make his results more accurate?