pollen tube: how flowering plants reproduce. Reproduction in flowering plants begins with pollination, the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma on the same flower or to the stigma of another flower on the same plant (self-pollination), or from anther on one plant to the stigma of another plant (cross-pollination).ollen tube: how flowering plants reproduce. Reproduction in flowering plants begins with pollination, the transfer of pollen from anther to stigma on the same flower or to the stigma of another flower on the same plant (self-pollination), or from anther on one plant to the stigma of another plant (cross-pollination).
World War II. Draft age is lowered to 18. On this day in 1942, Congress approves lowering the draft age to 18 and raising the upper limit to age 37. In September 1940, Congress, by wide margins in both houses, passed the Burke-Wadsworth Act, and the first peacetime draft was imposed in the history of the United States.
A+E Networks. During the Civil War, the U.S. Congress passes a conscription act that produces the first wartime draft of U.S. citizens in American history.The act called for registration of all males between the ages of 20 and 45, including aliens with the intention of becoming citizens, by April 1.lthough the Civil War saw the first compulsory conscription of U.S. citizens for wartime service, a 1792 act by Congress required that all able-bodied male citizens purchase a gun and join their local state militia.