Where are a plant's sex organs located?

A filamentous alga X is found in ponds, lakes and slow-moving streams. The filament of this alga simply breaks into two (or more) pieces on maturing and each piece then grows. to become a complete new alga.

(a) Name an alga which X is likely to be.

(b) What is the colour of X?

(c) What is the method of forming new algae by the breaking of parent alga known as ?

(d) An Amoeba also breaks up to form two. daughter Amoebae. What is the difference in the splitting Amoeba and splitting of this alga as a method of reproduction ?

(e) Name one marine animal which reproduces in the same way as alga X.

When a broken piece of the stem of a plant X is planted in the soil, a new plant grows from it in a week' time. The leaves of plant X also have many small entities Y in their margins which can fall to the ground alone or alongwith leaves and grow into new plants.

(a) Name a plant which X could be.

(b) What are the entities Y present on the leaves of X known as?

(c) Name a plant other than X which can be reproduced from its leaves.

(d) Name a common plant grown in many homes which can be propagated from its broken stems like plant X.

(e) Name a kind of dormant organs present in dry stems of old grass plants lying in the fields which activated and produce green grass plants after the rains.

What is the function of a flower ?

What are the reproductive organs in a flower ?