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Chasmogamy is pollination in.

  1. Bud condition

  2. Closed flowers

  3. Open flowers

  4. Unrelated flowers


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Chasmogamy is a plant with a reproductive mechanism in which pollination occurs in chasmogamous flowers. Chasmogamous flowers are showy with open petals and encircling exposed reproductive parts.  Chasmogamous stems from Greek for an open marriage. These are named after the open arrangement of floral structures. 

Once chasmogamous flowers have reached maturity, they unfurl and their stamens and/or style are made available for pollinations correct answer is Chasmogamy, is pollination in open flower.

Thus the correct answer is C.

Intraspecific incompatibility is overcome by.

  1. Mixed pollination

  2. Self pollination

  3. Wetting pollination

  4. Wetting of stigmas


Correct Option: A

Which one of the following plants is pollinated by bat?

  1. Bombax ceiba

  2. calotropis procera

  3. Mucuna gigantean

  4. Nicotiana glauca


Correct Option: A

Which of the following flowers are pollinated by wind?

  1. sunflower

  2. corn and willow

  3. buttercup and rose

  4. orchid and wall flower


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Anemophilous flowers have certain characters like:-

  • Production of a large number of pollen grains.
  • Well exposed anther.
  • Stigma is feathery and sticky.
  • Pollen grains are light and non-sticky.
All these properties are found in the flower of corn and willow.
So the correct option is 'Corn and willow'.

In oak, pollination is facilitated mainly by ___________.

  1. Birds

  2. Droplets of rain

  3. Insects

  4. Wind


Correct Option: A

Pollination in Ficus is?

  1. Anemophilous

  2. Entomophilous

  3. Ornithophilous

  4. Cheiropterophilous


Correct Option: A

Hydrophilic means pollination.

  1. Below water

  2. Inside water

  3. On the surface of water

  4. By agents other than water


Correct Option: A

Hal inferior' ovary occurs in the flowers of:

  1. carrot

  2. Plum

  3. Cucumber

  4. Plum


Correct Option: A

_______ flowers have very light weighted pollen grains.

  1. Insect pollinates

  2. Wind pollinated

  3. Water pollinated

  4. Animal pollinated


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The pollen grains which are very light in weight can be passed on by wind from one flower to another or to the stigma of the same flower. This is known as wind pollination. They produce light weight pollens in large number and do not produce vector. The stigma is sticky.

Yucca is pollinated by.

  1. Pronuba Moth

  2. Bumble Bee

  3. Honey Bee

  4. Butterfly


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Yucca is the pollinated by a moth known as the Tegeticulla yuccasella.  Each spring, adult moths emerge from the underground cocoons. And the males and females meet up with each other on Yucca plants for mating.

The Yucca moth is also termed as the pronuba moth. It is a small white moth that lives in the semi-arid habitats where Yucca plants grow.

Thus the correct answer is A.