. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. inating of the flowers by their insect visitors.(Cross-pollination is simply the bringing of pollen from thestamens of one flower to the pistils of another flower of thesame plant species.) In 1793 a German naturalist named Christian ConradSprengel published a book called The Discovered Secretof Nature in the Structure and Fertilization of discovered secret was that insects were instrumentalin pollinating flowers and that the colors and shapes offlowers helped to attract insects and compel them to do th
. The animans and man; an elementary textbook of zoology and human physiology. inating of the flowers by their insect visitors.(Cross-pollination is simply the bringing of pollen from thestamens of one flower to the pistils of another flower of thesame plant species.) In 1793 a German naturalist named Christian ConradSprengel published a book called The Discovered Secretof Nature in the Structure and Fertilization of discovered secret was that insects were instrumentalin pollinating flowers and that the colors and shapes offlowers helped to attract insects and compel them to do thispollinating. But it was reserved for the great Darwin to 45° INSECTS AND FLOWERS describe in wonderful detail this mutually advantageousinterrelation between flowers and insects and to explainits chief causal factors. These are, first, the real advantageto the plant of cross-pollination, and, second, the action ofnatural selection in modifying both flowers and insects forthe sake, or by the reason, of this advantage. Fertilization among plants is like fertilization among.
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