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Part of the archive's Junior Biology series, this study of the onion is aided by diagrammatic, time-lapse, and microscopic footage.
'The film shows speeded-up germination of the seed to form roots and shoot, at whose base the leaves later form a bulb. The flower produces pollen grains (shown much magnified), which are transferred by insects to the stigmas for fertilization of seeds inside the ovary.'
(Films of Britain - British Council Film Department Catalogue - 1942-1943
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