When a bee, or an ant, beetle, moth or butterfly visits a flower for food, it simultaneously, and without knowing it, performs another vital functions by carrying pollen from one plant to another. But not all flowers are visited by insects. A reliable guide to those that are, is their flamboyance, if the petals are large and colourful, if they smell sweet, it is because the plant needs to attract insects. Some plants have flowers which are graceful but not showy and therefore of no interest to insects. In this case the pollen in carried by the wind. Most flowers manufacture these minute grains called pollen which must be transferred to another flower of the same type before they can make seeds.
Which one of the following is correct?
Plants that do not have showy flowers

Options

A. get their pollen transferred to other flowers by wind
B. produce more pollen than others
C. don't rproduce easily
D. are very few in number

Answer

A

Explanation

Plants that do not have showy flowers, get their pollen transferred to other flowers by winds since insects do not get attracted towards them. They get attracted to those flowers whose petals are large and beautiful and also smells sweet.