Pollination
Pollination: Overview
This topic covers concepts such as Dicliny, Heterostyly, Herkogamy, Ornithophily, Chiropterophily, Malacophily, Myrmecophily, Self-incompatibility, and Geophily.
Important Questions on Pollination
The list of agents of pollination and the technical words used to describe the pollination are given below. Identify the correct pair:
The process in which the pollen of same plant is unable to form a pollen tube in the female flower is called
Why does self-pollination not lead to seed formation in self-incompatible species?
Self incompatilbility is found in which of the following plants.
Define self incompatilbility.
Heterostyly is seen in entomophilous plants.
Plants of which one of the following groups of genera are pollinated by the same agency _____.
Pollination by ants is called
Presence of Natural or physical barriers between Gynoecium and Androecium to avoid self pollination is called
Pollination in Anthocephalus and Kigelia pinnata is
______ are nocturnal and open their flower during night.
Chiropterophily is the pollination carried out by
The following statements about ornithophilous flower are true except:
Pollination by birds is
What do you mean by heterostyly?
Match the following Columns.
| Column – I (Pollination technique) | Column – II (Pollinator) |
| A. Cheiropterophily | 1 Ant |
| B. Anemophily | 2 Bat |
| C. Myrmecophily | 3 Snail |
| D. Malacophily | 4 Wind |
