Photo Scavenger Hunt: Week 7

The following photos contain a black pen to ensure that I took the photos myself.

This photo represents stigma & style of carpel. The stigma is the sticky tip of the pistil and style is the part of the female reproductive structure in the carpel of the flower, formed from the ovary wall.

Homologous structures are structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry.  The forelimbs of all mammals are constructed from the same basic skeletal elements. Just look at the similarities between me and my dog.

These are the new shoots on a flower plant. You can see the new flower buds on the tips. This is the auxin producing area of a plant. Auxin is a hormone that is made by plants in areas where a new root or shoot is growing, which is exactly what is happening here. All leafy plants have auxin.

Ants are animals that have a segmented body. Ants have three sections, or segments, on their bodies; head, thorax, and abdomen. A segmented body is when the body is divided into segments where the segments sort of piggyback on one another. Each body segment tends to repeat the same suite of structures. In this case, the segments are grouped into a larger unit.

Phloem is the living tissue that carries organic nutrients (known as photosynthate). In particular, sucrose, a sugar is carried to all parts of the plant where needed. In trees, the phloem is the innermost layer of the bark.

Mycelium is the mass of hyphae that constitutes the vegetative part of a fungus (the conspicuous part in most cases is the fruiting body of fungi). Mushrooms are a great example of a fungus containing mycelium.