Sexual reproduction

• In plants, sexual reproduction is carried out only in flowering plants.
• Flowers are the reproductive organs of a plant.

• Usually a flower contains both male and female reproductive cells called gametes in one flower.
• Such flowers are also called complete or bisexual flowers.
• When flowers have either male gametes or female gametes, they are called incomplete or unisexual flowers.
• Such type of flower is found in corn and papaya plants.
• Complete flowers have all the four parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils.

Stamens (male organ):

• They bear the anthers that contain pollen grains.
• Pollen grains have male gametes in them.

Pistil (female organ):

• The pistil is divided into a stigma, style, and ovary.
• The ovary contains the female gametes, called ovules.

• In sexual reproduction, seeds are formed.
• New plants develop from these seeds.
• Mature plants flower, and the flower after pollination and fertilization becomes a fruit.
• Fruits may have one or more seeds inside them.