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Wind pollinated flowers are...

Wind pollinated flowers are

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small, brightly coloured, producing large number of pollen grains

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small, producing large number of fry pollen grains

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large producing abundant nectar and pollen

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small, producing nectar and dry pollen

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MAXIMUM PUBLICATION-SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN FOLLOWING PLANTS-EXERCISE
  1. Mention two strategies evolved to prevent self-pollination in flowers.

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  2. Apomictic ernbryos in Citrus arise from

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  3. Wind pollinated flowers are

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  4. Which of the following statements about sporopollenin is wrong?

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  5. Egg apparatus of angiosperms consist of One synergid and two egg ce...

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  6. In some organisms, karyokinesis is not followed by cytokinesis as e re...

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  7. During the formation of embryo sac, the functional megaspore undergoes

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  8. One adavantage of Cleistogamy is

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  9. Which one of the following statements is not true?

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  10. Sporopollenin is chemically

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  11. Which one of the following pairs of plant structures has haploid numbe...

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  12. What does filiform apparatus do at the entrance into ovule. It

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  13. Which one of the following plant products is the hardest ?

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  14. A typical angiosperm embryo sac at maturity is

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  15. Why sometimes, even diploid offspring is produced through parthenogene...

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  16. Pollen grains are stored for long period without losing its viability ...

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  17. Filliform apparatus of an embryosac is located at

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  18. Double fertilization is very common in

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  19. In Citrus and mango the polymbryony is the special feature of occuranc...

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  20. Triple fusion takes place in angiosperm is due to

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