Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

What is common between vegetative reproduction and apomixis?

1. Both are applicable to only dicot plants
2. Both bypass the flowering phase
3. Both occur round the year
4. Both produce progeny identical to the parent.

Filiform apparatus is a characteristic feature of

1. suspensor
2. egg
3. synergid
4. zygote.

Nucellar polyembryony is reported in species of

1. Citrus
2. Gossypium
3. Triticum
4. Brassica.

Which one of the following pollinations is autogamous?

1. Geitonogamy
2. Xenogamy
3. Chasmogamy
4. Cleistogamy

Wind pollination is common in

1. legumes
2. lilies
3. grasses
4. orchids.

What would be the number of chromosomes of the aleurone cells of a plant with 42 chromosomes in its root tip cells?

1. 42
2. 63
3. 84
4. 21

Apomictic embryos in Citrus arise from

1. synergids
2. maternal sporophytic tissue in ovule
3. antipodal cells
4. diploid egg

Transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plant is called

1. xenogamy
2. geitonogamy
3. karyogamy
4. autogamy

Wind pollinated flowers are

1. small, brightly coloured, producing large number of pollen grains
2. small, producing large number of dry pollen grains
3. large producing abundant nectar and pollen
4. small, producing nectar and dry pollen

Which one of the following pairs of plant structures has haploid number of chromosomes?

1. Nucellus and antipodal cells
2. Egg nucleus and secondary nucleus
3. Megaspore mother cell and antipodal cells
4. Egg cell and antipodal cells