Chapter Questions
What is the study of spores and pollen called?
What are the two types of pollen nuclear number? Of pollen storage product?
What does pollen unit refer to?
What is the difference between a monad, tetrad, polyad, and pollinium?
What is pollen polarity?
What is the difference between an isopolar and heteropolar pollen grain?
What is the definition and function of a pollen aperture?
What is the difference between a colpus, porus, sulcus, and ulcerus?
What is a tricolporate pollen grain? A pentaporate pollen grain?
What is the size range of angiospermous pollen grains?
Name and define six terms that specify pollen sculpturing.
Name three functions of the pollen grain wall.
What are the two major layers of a pollen grain wall and how do they differ in chemical composition?
Name the two layers of exine.
Name and describe the most common type of exine wall structure.
What do nexine and sexine refer to?
What is the function of pollenkit or viscin threads?