TED TALK done by Jonathan Drori
TED TALK
I listened to an interesting TED TALK
done by Jonathan Drori on the beautiful tricks of flower. There are a quarter
of a million flowering plants. The duty of the flower is to reproduce their species.
Trees need to spread their genes with other genes to make a new plant to adapt
to the environment. For that purpose
plants have to spread their pollens to faraway places. Wind is one method to spread
pollen but it is not always successful. The insect and the birds are real pollinators.
Flowers have many tricks attract them. The
flies, insect birds get nectar. They have nectar as their food, in return they pollinate
the plants to reproduce. The birds also have adaptation to suck the nectar with
long beaks. Some flowers look like insects to cheat the insects. They are
cheated and reach the flower for food but they only get the pollens some
flowers are in bright color so, insect can see then clearly. The array of scent
emits by some flowers which are bloomed in night. As the sparker say the
flowers are real buggers.
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