Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Question 117
117. Development of an organism from female gamete/ egg without involving fertilization is
(a) Adventitive embryony
(b) Polyembryony
(c) Parthenocarpy
(d) Parthenogenesis
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Answer : d
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(d) Development of an organism from unfertilized egg is known as parthenogenesis and when a fruit is developed by this technique it is called parthenocarpy. The phenomenon of parthenogenesis was discovered in the 18 th cent. by Charles Bonnet.
