ovary ior ovule in plants. is this right?

Question

To start a new plant, pollen from one flower has to enter an ovule in another flower. So pollen from the stamens of one flower has to travel through the air to the stigma of another flower. Sometimes wind blows the pollen from one flower to another. Sometimes bees or other insects carry the pollen on their bodies. This is why flowers have bright colours and a nice smell– to attract insects. When a pollen grain lands on the stigma, it goes down a tube called the style and lands in the ovule. The pollen cell combines with the ovule which grows into a new seed. After this the stamens and petals dry up and fall off because they are no longer needed.

i am especially stuck on the terms ovary and ovule. have i used them correctly?

or, if the pollen goes into teh ovary does it then mix with the ovule to make the seed?
(this needs to be simple - its for 8 year olds!)

Answer 1

You have a couple of ideas that need to be a little more clear:

1. The pollen does not enter the ovule, nor does it travel down the style. The pollen lands on the stigma and then it grows a pollen tube down through the style (kind of like how a plant grows a root down into the ground). So the actual pollen grain stays on the stigma of the pistil.
2. The pollen tube grows down through the style to the ovule where the two sperm nuclei from the pollen will go in and join with some nuclei that are in a cell inside the ovule.
3. Here's the difference between ovary and ovule in a flowering plant: The ovule is a part that will turn into a seed after its nuclei have joined with sperm nuclei out of the pollen. The ovary is the bottom part of the pistil: stigma on top to catch the pollen, style to lead the pollen tube down to the ovules, ovary to contain the ovules and to eventually turn into the fruit.

Answer 2

Ovule In Plants

Answer 3

You are right. Its ovule. Ovary is found in Humans and it is where the ova is produced