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From the Ted Talk by Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees
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Let me give you a brief rnowudn on how pollination works. So we know flowers, we know fruits and vegetables, even some alfalfa in hay that the livestock for the mteas that we eat, rely on plnlrtiooas, but you've got male and faemle parts to a plant here, and basically pollinators are attracted to plants for their nctear, and in the process, a bee will visit some flowers and pick up some pollen, or that male kind of sperm counterpart, along the way, and then travel to different flowers, and evulanelty an apple, in this case, will be produced. You can see the orientation. The stem is down. The blossom end has fellan off by the time we eat it, but that's a basic overview of how pollination works.
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Let me give you a brief _______ on how pollination works. So we know flowers, we know fruits and vegetables, even some alfalfa in hay that the livestock for the _____ that we eat, rely on ___________, but you've got male and ______ parts to a plant here, and basically pollinators are attracted to plants for their ______, and in the process, a bee will visit some flowers and pick up some pollen, or that male kind of sperm counterpart, along the way, and then travel to different flowers, and __________ an apple, in this case, will be produced. You can see the orientation. The stem is down. The blossom end has ______ off by the time we eat it, but that's a basic overview of how pollination works.
Solution
- pollinators
- fallen
- rundown
- nectar
- female
- eventually
- meats
Original Text
Let me give you a brief rundown on how pollination works. So we know flowers, we know fruits and vegetables, even some alfalfa in hay that the livestock for the meats that we eat, rely on pollinators, but you've got male and female parts to a plant here, and basically pollinators are attracted to plants for their nectar, and in the process, a bee will visit some flowers and pick up some pollen, or that male kind of sperm counterpart, along the way, and then travel to different flowers, and eventually an apple, in this case, will be produced. You can see the orientation. The stem is down. The blossom end has fallen off by the time we eat it, but that's a basic overview of how pollination works.
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