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Whose 1682 book correctly presented the pistil and stamen as, respectively, the female and male sex organs of flowers?

Whose 1682 book correctly presented the pistil and stamen as, respectively, the female and male sex organs of flowers? Correct Answer Nehemiah Grew

Nehemiah Grew, an English botanist, physician, and microscopist, is, along with the Italian microscopist Marcello Malpighi, considered to be among the founders of the science of plant anatomy. Grew’s The Anatomy of Plants (1682) is best remembered for the idea, suggested to Grew by the physician Sir Thomas Millington, that the stamen, with its pollen, corresponds to the male sex organ and that the pistil corresponds to the female sex organ.

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