Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Which one of the following statements is not true?

1. The flowers pollinated by flies and bats secrete foul odour to attract them.
2. Honey is made by bees by digesting pollen collected from flowers.
3. Pollen grains are rich in nutrients and they are used in the form of tablets and syrups.
4. Pollen grains of some plants cause severe allergies and bronchial afflictions in some people.

Transmission tissue is characteristic feature of

1. dry stigma
2. wet stigma
3. hollow style
4. solid style.

Geitonogamy involves

1. fertilization of a flower by the pollen from another flower of the same plant
2. fertilization of a flower by the pollen from the same flower
3. fertilization of a flower by the pollen from a flower of another plant in the same population
4. fertilization of a flower by the pollen from a flower of another plant belonging to a distant population.

Pollen tablets are available in the market for

1. in vitro fertilization
2. breeding programmes
3. supplementing food
4. ex situ conservation.

Function of filiform apparatus is to

1. recognize the suitable pollen at stigma
2. stimulate division of generative cell
3. produce nectar
4. guide the entry of pollen tube.

Non-albuminous seed is produced in

1. maize
2. castor
3. wheat
4. pea.

Perisperm differs from endosperm in

1. being a diploid tissue
2. its formation by fusion of secondary nucleus with several sperms
3. being a haploid tissue
4. having no reserve food.

Advantage of cleistogamy is

1. no dependence on pollinators
2. vivipary
3. higher genetic variability
4. more vigorous offspring.

Megasporangium is equivalent to

1. nucellus
2. ovule
3. embryo sac
4. fruit.

Which one of the following statements is correct?

1. Endothecium produces the microspores.
2. Tapetum nourishes the developing pollen.
3. Hard outer layer of pollen is called intine.
4. Sporogenous tissue is haploid.