Vocabulary Term Details

Pollen

Definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen)

Pollen is a fine to coarse powder containing the microgametophytes of seed plants, which produce the male gametes (sperm cells). Pollen grains have a hard coat that protects the sperm cells during the process of their movement from the stamens to the pistil of flowering plants or from the male cone to the female cone of coniferous plants. (Wikipedia)

Preferred Units: N/A

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Broader TermsNarrower TermsRelated Terms
Gametes
Pollen tubes
Androgenesis
Anthers
Pollen elongation
Pollination
Spores

This term is used for the following terms: 
Microspores (pollen)
Pollen grains

Approved Date
18-Apr-2013

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