1. | Water pollinated flowers showing stamens with mucilaginous covering. |
2. | Cleistogamous flowers showing autogamy. |
3. | Compact inflorescence showing complete autogamy. |
4. | Wind pollinated plant inflorescence showing flowers with well exposed stamens. |
1. | Nucellus | 2. | Integument |
3. | Chalaza | 4. | Hilum |
1. | Amensalism | 2. | Anemophily |
3. | Floral reward | 4. | Commensalism |
A: | The flowers of Vallisneria are colourful and produce nectar. |
B: | The flowers of waterlily are not pollinated by water. |
C: | In most of water-pollinated species, the pollen grains are protected from wetting. |
D: | Pollen grains of some hydrophytes are long and ribbon like. |
E: | In some hydrophytes, the pollen grains are carried passively inside water. |
Assertion (A): | Apomictic embryos are generally identical to the parent plant. |
Reason (R): | Apomixis is the production of seeds without fertilisation. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). |
2. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). |
3. | (A) is true but (R) is false. |
4. | (A) is false but (R) is true. |