Plants undergo a life cycle which includes stages such as germination, growth, flowering and seed formation. In this article we will focus on the flowering lifecycle. Once a seed reaches optimal conditions of moisture, warmth, and light, it sprouts into a seedling with roots growing down to anchor it into the earth, while stems extending…
Children across the world love butterflies with their vibrant colors and intricate patterns, as they follow them from Egg, Larva, Pupa to Adulthood in their life cycle. The larva consumes food all day and grows until it is time for its next transformation, creating a vessel called a chrysalis around itself to prepare for metamorphosis…
Butterfly life begins as an egg and evolves into an aquatic larva that feeds rapidly on plant material before metamorphosing into an adult butterfly with special cells forming its legs, wings and eyes. After this stage, the caterpillar will form a hard shell called a chrysalis and within it it restructures into an adult butterfly…
Plants go through an evolutionary cycle known as their life cycle that ensures their survival. Germination is the first step of plant cultivation. This occurs when a seed breaks through its outer shell and begins to grow roots and leaves that allow sunlight to enter its cells and feed itself through photosynthesis, providing sustenance. Seed…
Plants come in all shapes and sizes, but all follow a similar lifecycle. In this article, we’ll cover its basics starting with seeds. An ideal environment for seed germination includes oxygen, water, sunlight and the proper temperature. Once these factors come together, germination occurs. Seed Seeds are packages containing embryos (baby plants) and food reserves…
Plants possess an extraordinary capacity to disseminate their seeds across long distances using water, wind or animals as vehicles for this process. When the seeds reach an area with appropriate conditions for them to germinate they will take root and form new stems and roots. At this stage, plants utilize sunlight, carbon dioxide and water…
Every flowering plant begins as a tiny seed. Through sunlight, water, and soil conditions, this seedling germinates into an attractive sprout or seedling with stems and roots to absorb nutrients while leaves capture sunlight for photosynthesis and create food by photosynthesis. Flowers contain male sexual parts (anthers) and female sexual parts (pistils). Pollen from the…
A plant’s life cycle refers to the series of steps it undergoes in order to reproduce and grow, similar to what occurs with bryophytes, fungi and algae. Most plants begin as seeds that sprout into seedlings before eventually reaching maturity and producing flowers and fruits. Seed Seeds are miniature plants with roots, stems, and leaves…
Flowers are beautiful, fragrant, and draw pollinators insects to pollinate them, serving also to disseminate seeds across their environment. Pollen grains that land on the stigmas of other flowers of the same species germinate to form a tube that descends through style and into ovary where male reproductive cells, known as gametes, unite with female…
