Post for Friday the 29th (I will be in Nicaragua!!!)

Grouping: Organisms on different levels of the same food chain

Photo 6: This is Brumuda grass (located in my backyard, and the backyard of many others). It serves as the primary producer in this food chain. Grass produces its own food.

Photo 7: This is a camel cricket. It serves as the primary consumer in this food chain. Crickets are heterotrophs who eat plants.

Photo 8: This is a green tree frog. Their scientific name is Hyla Cinerea. They are secondary consumers in this food chain.

Photo 9: This is snake way back under the tree branch. Snakes serve as tertiary consumers in this food chain as snakes are a huge predator of frogs. This food chain proves to show that an animal doesnt have to be a huge lion to be a tertirary consumer.

(I had to stop my food chain here because I did not plan on spotting a hawk or coyote which both eat snakes any time soon..)

Photo 10: Flower Ovary-- A flower ovary is the part of the reproductive organ of the flower. It is located near where the sepals and the base of the petals meet. Right above the ovary is the stigma where the pollen is. This is my Begonia plant. It is looking very pretty and blooming lots of flowers!!
Pollen-- Pollen is the yellow powdery stuff in the middle of the flower buds on several plants and flowers. It contains microgametophytes which has the sperm cells from males. When it lands on a female cone, it germinates. Gametophytes-- are what produce male or female gametes by mitosis. It is the haploid cell. The male and female gametes coming together produces the diploid cell.
Pollinator-- There is a third party involved in flower and plant "mating." A pollinator has to come along and carry to pollen from one flower to another. This pollinator is some kind of insect, and it many cases it is a bee.