Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Question 17

17. Geitonogamy involves:

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(a) fertilization of a flower by the pollen from another flower of the same plant.

(b) fertilization of a flower by the pollen from the same flower.

(c) fertilization of a flower by the pollen from a flower of another plant in the same population.

(d) fertilization of a flower by the pollen from a flower of another plant belonging to a distant population.

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Answer : a

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(a) Geitonogamy is the transfer of pollen grains in different flowers of same plant.