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In class we did an experiment on pollen tubes. We set up containers with a coffee filter on the bottom, a cut straw in the shape of an arrow, than we wet the coffee filter with water, than put sugar water on the pollen we got from different flowers. In order for them to grow pollen tubes we let it sit over night. My group did the Dandelion and when we got to class today there wasn't any pollen tubes. Another group did Commonstorlesbill and they had a pollen tube and it look like a ball connected to a tube. A different group did Hebit and they had a lot of pollen tubes that looked like upside down curved mushrooms. The last group did Ground Ivy and they had a couple pollen tubes and they looked like straight line tubes. I feel like the Dandelion didn't grow any pollen tubes because they are very resistance. Do you know why all the other flowers' pollen grew pollen tubes but the Dandelion didn't when we all set up everything the same way.
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