Concetti Chiave
- Pollination occurs when pollen from one flower reaches the stigma of another, enabling fertilization and seed production.
- Animals like birds, insects, or bats often unintentionally pollinate flowers while moving between plants for nectar.
- Cross-pollination involves mixing pollen from different strains, and can be used metaphorically to describe sharing knowledge or skills.
- Bees are crucial for pollination, especially for fruit trees, and their decline can negatively impact plant populations.
- Stinging can involve physical injury or pain, both literal from animals like bees and wasps, and metaphorical when facing unpleasant situations.
Pollinate
When pollen from one flower reaches another flower's stigma, we say that it has been pollinated, which allows fertilization and seed production. Often, animals such as birds, insects, or bats pollinate flowers without meaning to do so as they move from plant to plant to feast on nectar.
If anything hurts the honeybee population, all the plants in the area will suffer, since most of them, especially fruit trees, rely on bees to pollinate them.
If you pollinate a white carnation with pollen from a red carnation, you may end up with pink carnations from the seeds that are produced as a result.
If you want to talk about pollinating one strain of a species with pollen from another strain, it is called cross-pollination.
The scientist Gregor Mendel cross¬pollinated many pea plants to analyze how traits are passed from generation to generation. He was really the first geneticist.
I decided to work with my friend Bob on this new song, because he approaches songs in a very different way than I do. A little musical cross¬pollination will keep things interesting.
Sting
When something stings you, it injures you with something sharp and pointy, or introduces poison to your system, or both. Sting can also refer to the injury you receive when an animal stings you, or can describe the pain of such an injury.
Unlike bees, wasps can sting you as many times as they want without hurting themselves, so you should be extra careful when dealing with a wasps' nest around your home.
This bee sting really hurts. I have always heard that a paste of baking soda and water helps to take the sting out of it, but I've tried it and it hasn't worked at all.
You can also use sting figuratively. When something unpleasant happens, you can say that stings. If you find a way to solve the problem or make it less damaging, you are taking the sting out of it.
I didn't calculate things the right way, and instead of a tax refund I got an income tax bill for more than a thousand dollars this year. That really stings!
Although I had to pay so much in taxes this year, I know that next year this won't happen, since I learned what not to do. That takes the sting out of it a little bit.
Domande da interrogazione
- ¿Qué es la polinización y cómo ocurre?
- ¿Por qué es importante la población de abejas para las plantas?
- ¿Qué es la picadura y cómo se puede aliviar?
- ¿Cómo se utiliza el término "picadura" de manera figurada?
La polinización ocurre cuando el polen de una flor llega al estigma de otra flor, permitiendo la fertilización y producción de semillas. A menudo, animales como aves, insectos o murciélagos polinizan las flores sin intención mientras se alimentan de néctar.
La población de abejas es crucial para las plantas, especialmente los árboles frutales, ya que muchas dependen de las abejas para ser polinizadas. Si algo afecta a las abejas, las plantas de la zona sufrirán.
Una picadura es una lesión causada por algo afilado o venenoso. Se dice que una pasta de bicarbonato de sodio y agua puede aliviar el dolor de una picadura de abeja, aunque no siempre funciona.
Figuradamente, "picadura" se usa para describir algo desagradable que ocurre. Si se encuentra una solución o se minimiza el daño, se dice que se "quita la picadura" del problema.
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