Question

Which of the following is true of conifers?
answers:
Female cones produce pollen that fertilizes the egg.

Most coniferous trees have both male and female cones.

Male cones cannot produce pollen unless fertilized by the female cone.

Female cones produce pollen that is trapped by the male cones’ scales

Answer 1

@Agent_Sniffles

Answer 2

im not agent sniffles(: but female cones are the ones that ferilize. so your answer would be a.

Answer 3

@bngaure's answer is wrong. Pollen grains are basically little sacks of plant sperm: they're not going to come from a female cone.

Answer 4

@calliope sorry honey but im right, it sounds weird that the females would but they do.
The transfer of pollen grains to the female reproductive structure (pistil in angiosperms) is called pollination. This transfer can be mediated by the wind, in which case the plant is described as anemophilous (literally wind-loving). Anemophilous plants typically produce great quantities of very lightweight pollen grains, sometimes with air-sacs. Non-flowering seed plants (e.g. pine trees) are characteristically anemophilous. Anemophilous flowering plants generally have inconspicuous flowers. Entomophilous (literally insect-loving) plants produce pollen that is relatively heavy, sticky and protein-rich, for dispersal by insect pollinators attracted to their flowers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen

Answer 5

@bngaure No... there's nothing in the bit that you quoted to support your answer. Female cones do not, by definition, produce pollen.

Answer 6

oh your right i feel stupid! the females produce the seeds.

Answer 7

its is c