Pollination is a process through which plants distribute seeds that become embedded in flowers and fruit that ultimately produce new seeds, completing the cycle for that particular plant’s lifecycle. Once a seed finds an environment suitable for its development, it begins to sprout and develop into what is known as a seedling – a young […]
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Students can gain valuable lessons about biology, metamorphosis and sustainability by exploring the lifecycle of butterflies. After an egg hatches, its contents transform into larvae or moths which feed upon food sources while growing and molting multiple times through apolysis (shedding its skin multiple times). As it develops into a butterfly, a caterpillar forms a
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Plants have the capacity to reproduce both sexually and asexually, known as alternation of generations. Seeds are the building blocks of all plants. Once these seeds find soil rich in oxygen and moisture levels as well as an ideal temperature environment, their outer coating releases and they begin growing, which is known as germination. Gametophytes
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Butterflies go through four distinct stages during their life cycle and look different at each step. A butterfly begins as an egg that hatches and transforms into a caterpillar, which then consumes and expands over time, before eventually shedding its skin several times and emerging as an adult butterfly. Once a caterpillar lays her eggs,
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Like all living organisms, plants possess their own distinct method for growing and reproducing themselves – known as their life cycle. Flower petals are where reproduction takes place. Pollen grains produced by stamen cells can then be distributed via wind or insects and transferred from flower to flower via pollen tubes. Water is indispensable in
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Start teaching your students about the majestic butterfly lifecycle by sharing books like Madison and Hawkes’ Velma Gratch and the Way Cool Butterfly or The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Once a caterpillar has shed its skin four times, it enters its third stage: larva or pupal stage. Here it finds shelter and builds its protective covering
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An ideal planet for hosting life must meet certain conditions; specifically, its star’s habitable zone must allow life to thrive there. It should have a surface where liquid water can gather, as well as an atmosphere which protects its inhabitants from harmful solar radiation. Are there planets similar to our Earth in the universe? Size
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Life cycles of plants describe their development from birth through growing, flowering and seed production to maturity and death. All plants start as seeds. After being planted and germinating, each seed produces two leaves known as cotyledons before breaking open to grow roots and shoots. Seed Seeds are the fruit of plants, each one containing
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At its final stage, a caterpillar searches out a safe place and constructs an encasing called a chrysalis. Though this structure seems motionless at first glance, incredible processes are underway inside. Special butterfly cells transform into the wings, legs and eyes of adult butterflies in this demanding process, which may take between 1-14 months depending
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