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Hair found in the inflorescence of Zea mays are the modification of
- style
- stigma
- spathe
- filaments.
Answer
(1) style
Solution
The 'hair' (silk) hanging from a maize (corn) cob are the long styles of the female flowers, ending in stigmas.
⇒ As per NCERT, the tassels seen in the corn cob are nothing but the stigma and style which wave in the wind to trap pollen grains.
∵ Most of the length of each silk thread is the elongated style, the stigmatic part being only its receptive surface.
∴ The hair are modifications of the style.
Answer: (1)
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