Arrange the following words in a meaningful sequence:
1. Fertilisation
2. Bud
3. Fruit
4. Pollination
5. Flower
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → 2, 5, 4, 1, 3
The words are the stages by which a plant forms a fruit:
2. Bud — A bud appears on the plant.
5. Flower — The bud opens into a flower.
4. Pollination — Pollen reaches the stigma of the flower; this is pollination.
1. Fertilisation — The male cell from the pollen joins the egg cell in the ovary; this is fertilisation.
3. Fruit — After fertilisation the ovary grows into a fruit.