Pollination
Pollination: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Self-incompatibility, Herkogamy, Ornithophily, Heterostyly, Chiropterophily, Myrmecophily, Malacophily, Dicliny and, Geophily
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:
Large, colourful, fragrant flowers with nectar are seen in:
What is the function of tassels in the corn cob?
Plants that are pollinated by wind show:
I. Light and sticky pollen grains.
II. Long and dry pollen grains.
III. Well-exposed stamens and feathery stigma.
IV. Often have single ovule in each ovary.
V. Numerous flowers packed into an inflorescence.
Match the following:
| List-I | List-II | ||
| A) | Viola | I) | Transfer of pollen from one flower to the stigma of another flower |
| B) | Abiotic pollination | II) | Anemophily |
| C) | Xenogamy | III) | Vallisneria |
| D) | Epihydrophily | IV) | Chasmogamy and cleistogamy |
The correct match is:
In pansy flower, the stigma is covered by a hood to deny the entrance of same flower anther, then how does the other flower pollen enter it??
Papaya plants exhibit xenogamy only. Why?
Insect pollinated flowers usually possess:
Do you think that cleistogamy is advantageous or disadvantageous to the plant? Why?
Which one of the following is correct for animal pollinated plants?
The reward produced by plants to their animal visitors is in the form of
Which of the following is functionally cross-pollination and genetically self-pollination?
Stigma of wind-pollinated plants are:
Autogamy is not promoted by:
Pollination occurring in closed flower is called as
Which of the following statements does not match with anemophily?
