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I just need a description of what role bees play in pollination (it’s horticulture) btw

I just need a description of what role bees play in pollination (it’s horticulture-example-1
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In the nature, plants reproduce s*exually but unlike many organisms, they do not directly mate with their opposite gender for reproduction. Their mechanism of reproduction in short is that male flowers produce pollens (yellow, powdery type thing) in thei anthers (male fower gamet) and when these pollens get contact with the female flower's stigma, the pollen fuses with the ovule and produces a fruit containing the seed.

Now how do we get these pollens moving from anthers to stigma? There are two ways. The first is by wind, when wind blows, it carries the lightweight pollens through the air and it falls onto a female flower.

the second one is by bees.

Those flowers produce nectar deep in the flower which can be sensed by bees. Bees enter the flower to collect the nectar while pollens are stuck on to its body. The bees travel to another flower for collecting nectar and when they do, the pollens from the body enter the stigma.

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Bees are essential for the growth of flowers and plants. They use the process of pollination where they transfer small grains of pollen from one flower of the same plant to another flower of the same species. This pollen transfer helps the flowers to get continuous growth.

Step-by-step explanation:

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