Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Question:

Assertion: Cleistogamous flowers require pollinating agents.
Reasoning:: Chasmogamous flowers do not expose their sex organs.

Options:

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are correct  but R is not the correct explanation of A.

Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false .

Both Assertion (A) and Reason are false (F ).

Correct Answer:

Both Assertion (A) and Reason are false (F ).

Explanation:

Chasmogamous flowers  are similar to flowers of other species with exposed anthers and stigma,require pollinating agents.  and cleistogamous flowers which do not open at all. In such flowers, the anthers and stigma lie close to each other.   Cleistogamous flowers do not expose their sex organs. Cleistogamous flowers produce assured seed-set even in the absence of pollinators.