Gartner, Inc. (www.gartner.com) defines TCO as the total cost of using and maintaining an IT investment over time. TCO calculations include a combination of direct costs (hardware, software, operations and administration) and indirect costs (end-user operations and downtime).
Cone Function. Each coniferous tree produces both male and female cones. Male cones are much smaller and less showy than their female counterparts. During spring, pollen produced from the male cones is carried by the wind through the female cones fertilizing their egg cells and prompting them to produce seeds.dentification. Seeds are found in both coniferous and flowering plants. They range widely in size, from tiny, barely visible grains to large, bulbous nodules two inches or more in length. Seeds can be firm and fleshy, rough and woody, or hard and smooth.
The Leaf. Two Functions of the Leaf. 1  Photosynthesis is the process when leaf cells containing chlorophyll take in carbon dioxide and water and using sunlight, make sugar and oxygen. 2  Transpiration is the loss of water from the leaf.3  This helps to draw water up through the plant from the roots. The female part of the flower is the pistil (composed of the stigma, the thin style and the ovary). 2  Pollination occurs when pollen is transferred by insects or wind from the anther to the stigma. 3  Chemicals called enzymes 'drill' a channel down through the style to the ovary where the egg is.