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.



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