What is the function of flower?

Answer 1

The normal flower has three basic functions:

1. It provides a platform for the sexual reproductive system of the plant (androecium - male and gynoecium - female) - both monoecious and diecious flowers. Within the flower pollen and ovules are produced normally through the process of meiosis.

Pollination takes place and ovules form into seeds, with the swollen ovary normally forming into a fruit (or seed pod). Flowers are a feature normally associated with angiosperms, and cones characteristic of gymnosperms.

2. It provides a mechanism to attract pollinators to facilitate pollination (petals) - monoecious flowers and diecious flowers. Flowers provide a visual attractant to many pollinators (insects, birds, animals etc.), this is also sometimes in conjunction with a scented attractant such as nectar. These sensory "lures" attract insects which then transfer pollen between the flowers and facilitate pollination (either cross pollination or self pollination).

3. It provides a platform for fertilized ovules to develop and be distributed as fruit and seeds - monoecious flowers and female diecious flowers only.

Monoecious = having both sexes (male and female) on the same flower

Diecious = having separate sexed flowers (male flowers and female flowers)

Answer 2

They make and spread the seed for pollination/fertilization. The flower receives pollen from the same species of an opposite sex to become fertilized, and then the flower will make it's seed.

Answer 3

The normal flower has three basic functions:

1. It provides a platform for the sexual reproductive system of the plant (androecium - male and gynoecium - female) - both monoecious and diecious flowers. Within the flower pollen and ovules are produced normally through the process of meiosis.

Pollination takes place and ovules form into seeds, with the swollen ovary normally forming into a fruit (or seed pod). Flowers are a feature normally associated with angiosperms, and cones characteristic of gymnosperms.

2. It provides a mechanism to attract pollinators to facilitate pollination (petals) - monoecious flowers and diecious flowers. Flowers provide a visual attractant to many pollinators (insects, birds, animals etc.), this is also sometimes in conjunction with a scented attractant such as nectar. These sensory "lures" attract insects which then transfer pollen between the flowers and facilitate pollination (either cross pollination or self pollination).

3. It provides a platform for fertilized ovules to develop and be distributed as fruit and seeds - monoecious flowers and female diecious flowers only.

Monoecious = having both sexes (male and female) on the same flower

Diecious = having separate sexed flowers (male flowers and female flowers)

Answer 4

Flowers contain the reproductive parts of the plant. The flower attracts pollinating insects, like bees, which when landing on the flower, will pick up some of the pollen and transfer it to another flower.

Answer 5

Flowers are a means for plants to reproduce. Pollinators are attracted to flowers in order to drink the nectar, and in the process they are covered in pollen. That pollen then gets transferred to another flower, fertilizing it and allowing the flower to transform into a seed or seeds within a fruit. So the purpose of flowers is reproduction.

Answer 6

The function of a flower is to attract things and animals that pollinate then so they can aid in the fertilization of the plants seeds.