Analysis

Firstly, it is important to realize that tulips bloom in the spring and winter pansys as well as roses bloom in the winter.  Our original hypothesis was centered on the assumption that winter pollen was more complex in morphology, than spring pollen due to the fact that it survives the winter still being intact.  Our specific data showed that the red tulip was a monolete, meaning that the microspore of pollen had one aperture and its surface was scabrate.  This was extremely different from the winter pansy, which was what we expected, but there were not as many similarities between winter pansy and the rose as we had hoped for.  One major difference between the rose and winter pansy was the size of the pollen under the SEM microscope.  At the magnification of 2000x rose pollen had the width of 45um and the winter pansy pollen had the width of 75um, and finally, the tulip pollen had the width of  16.1um.  These data show that there are significant differences between all of the information we collected, but with more data we might have been able to reach further conclusions.