Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Question:

Which among the following statements are incorrect :

(A) Transfer of pollen grains (shed from the anther) to the style  of a pistil is termed pollination.

(B) In a normal flower which opens and exposes the anthers and the stigma, complete autogamy is rather rare.

(C) Some plants such as Zostera, Oxalis, and Commelina produce two types of flowers – chasmogamous  and cleistogamous.

(D)Cleistogamous flowers produce assured seed-set even in the absence of pollinators.

(E) Geitonogamy is the only type of pollination which during pollination brings genetically different types of pollen grains to the stigma.

 

Options:

A,B ,C and  E  only .

B  and E  only .

A,C,D and E 

A,C and E only .

Correct Answer:

A,C and E only .

Explanation:

(A) Transfer of pollen grains (shed from the anther) to the stigma of a pistil is termed pollination.

(B) In a normal flower which opens and exposes the anthers and the stigma, complete autogamy is rather rare.

(C) Some plants such as Viola (common pansy), , Oxalis, and Commelina produce two types of flowers – chasmogamous  and cleistogamous.

(D)Cleistogamous flowers produce assured seed-set even in the absence of pollinators.

(E) Xenogamy  is the only type of pollination which during pollination brings genetically different types of pollen grains to the stigma.