Identify the following statement as true (T) or false (F), and choose the correct option.
A. Bees are the most common insect pollinating agents.
B. The flower pollinated by flies and beetles secrets foul odours.
C. Plants provide no advantage to insect in terms of rewards.
D. Yucca and Pronuba moth cannot complete their life cycle without each other.
Important Questions on Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Match the following columns, and select the correct option.
| Column – I | Column – II |
| (a) Anemophily | (i) Zostera |
| (b) Epihydrophily | (ii) Amorphophallus |
| (c) Hypohydrophily | (iii) Wheat |
| (d) Entomophily | (iv) Vallisneria |
Identify the statements that are true for anemophilous flowers.
(a) Pollen grains are light and sticky.
(b) They possess large feathery stigma.
(c) They are not very colorful and do not produce nectar.
(d) They have many ovules in each ovary.
How many of the following characteristics of flowers favour pollination by insect?
Brightly colored scanty flowers, presence of nectaries, sticky pollens, feathery stigma, foul odor, winged pollen, mucilaginous covering around pollen grains
