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How does the production of unisexual flowers prevent self-pollination?

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### Step-by-Step Solution: 1. **Understanding Unisexual Flowers**: Unisexual flowers are those that contain either male (staminate) or female (pistillate) reproductive parts, but not both. This means that a flower will either produce pollen or ovules, but not both. 2. **Separation of Reproductive Parts**: In plants that produce unisexual flowers, the male and female flowers are typically found on different plants (dioecious species) or on different parts of the same plant (monoecious species). This physical separation is crucial in preventing self-pollination. 3. **Mechanism of Pollination**: Since unisexual flowers do not have both male and female reproductive structures in the same flower, pollination cannot occur within the same flower. For fertilization to happen, pollen must be transferred from a male flower to a female flower. ...
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CENGAGE BIOLOGY-REPRODUCTION-MANDATORY EXERCISE (EXERCISE SET II)
  1. Can snails pollinate the flowers? What do you call such a pollination?

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  2. How does the production of unisexual flowers prevent self-pollination?

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  3. Give reasons : Angiosperms show the process of double fertilization.

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  4. Give reasons : Cleistogamous flowers are strictly autogamous.

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  5. Give reasons : Dehydration of seed increases their shelf life.

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  6. What is the fate of the following in the development of fruit and seed...

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  7. What is the fate of the following in the development of fruit and seed...

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  8. What is the fate of the following in the development of fruit and seed...

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  9. Observe the following diagram and answer the questions given at the en...

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  10. Observe the following diagram and answer the questions given at the en...

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  11. The endosperm of the angiosperms is the

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  12. The diagrams below show the appearance of the flowers with and without...

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  13. Explain the staminate flower

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  14. Explain the pistillate flower

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  15. Explain the bisexual flower

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  16. Explain the unisexual flower

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  17. Explain the double fertilization

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  18. Different between Calyx and corolla

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  19. Different between Actinomorphic and zygomorphic flower

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  20. Different between Gamosepalous and polysepalous calyx

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