Pollination
Pollination: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Pollination, Self Pollination, Autogamy, Chasmogamy, Cleistogamy, Geitonogamy, Xenogamy, Agents of Pollination, Hydrophily, Entomophily, Ornithophily, Chiropterophily, Malacophily, Artificial Hybridisation, etc.
Important Questions on Pollination
The process that is functionally similar to cross pollination and genetically similar to self-pollination is called:
Which of the following are adaptive floral characteristics of a wind pollinated plant?
Which of the following plants are water pollinated?
In which of the following plants, their flowers would favour cross pollination:
Mention the process of bagging in artificial hybridisation.
Name the pollination method by ants.
Write an account of myrmecophily.
Myrmecophily is the pollination by snails.
Pollination by ants is called
Name the kind of fertilization that occurs between male and female gametes of the same organism, whether it is exogamy or autogamy.
Which of the following plants are pollinated by bats?
Ornithophily refers to the pollination by birds.
Entomophily is observed in grasses.
Transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of another flower on the same plant is called geitonogamy or xenogamy?
_____ is the type of self-pollination that occurs within the same flowers.
Cross-pollination results in:
Chasmogamous flowers produce assured seed-set even in the absence of pollinators.
Fill in the blank with the correct word given in the bracket.
Viola and Commelina produce two types of flowers namely, _____ (chasmogamous/monogamous) flowers and cleistogamous flowers.
