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Examine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the staminate and pistillate flowers. Do you know any other plant that bears unisexual flowers ?

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Cucumber is a good example of Cucurbita.
Cucumber plants have separate male and female flowers.
A pistillate flower is distinct by appearance of a baby fruit at the base of the flower, while a male or staminate flower does not possess such baby fruit.
Another example of a unisexual flower is the flower of maize.
The male flower in maize can be distinguished from the female as it grows higher up the stem.
While the female flower remains on the lower part of the stem.
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KUMAR PRAKASHAN-REPRODUCTION IN ORGANISMS-SECTION - D TEXTUAL EXERCISE
  1. Why is reproduction essential for organisms ? Describe its types.

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  2. Which is a better mode of reproduction : sexual or asexual ? Why ?

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  3. Why is the offspring formed by asexual reproduction referred to as a c...

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  4. Justify why the survival rate of offsprings in sexual reproduction is ...

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  5. How does the progeny formed from asexual reproduction differ from thos...

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  6. Why vegetative reproduction is also considered as a type of asexual re...

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  7. What is vegetative propagation ? Give two suitable examples.

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  8. Explain Reproductive phase

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  9. Higher organisms have resorted to sexual reproduction in spite of thei...

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  10. Explain why meiosis and gametogenesis are always interlinked ?

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  11. Identify each part in a flowering plant and write whether it is haploi...

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  12. Define external fertilisation. Mention its disadvantages.

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  13. Differentiate between a zoospore and a zygote.

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  14. Differentiate between gametogenesis from embryogenesis.

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  15. Describe the post - fertilisation changes in a flower.

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  16. What is a bisexual flower ? Collect five bisexual flowers from your ne...

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  17. Examine a few flowers of any cucurbit plant and try to identify the st...

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  18. Why are offspring of oviparous animals at a greater risk as compared t...

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