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Pollination vs. Fertilization — What's the Difference?

Pollination vs. Fertilization — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Pollination and Fertilization

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower.

Fertilization

The act or process of initiating biological reproduction by insemination or pollination.

Pollination

To transfer pollen from an anther of an angiosperm to (a stigma, flower, or plant).

Fertilization

The union of male and female gametes to form a zygote.

Pollination

To transfer pollen from a microsporangium of a gymnosperm to (an ovule, cone, or plant).
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Fertilization

The act or process of applying a fertilizer.

Pollination

(botany) The transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma; effected by insects, birds, bats and the wind etc.

Fertilization

The act or process of rendering fertile.

Pollination

Transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma of a plant

Fertilization

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable gametes; especially, the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants

Fertilization

The act of applying fertilizer to soil.

Fertilization

The act or process of rendering fertile.

Fertilization

The act of fecundating or impregnating animal or vegetable germs; esp., the process by which in flowers the pollen renders the ovule fertile, or an analogous process in flowerless plants; fecundation; impregnation.

Fertilization

Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

Fertilization

Making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure

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