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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants · Question 89

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1

What is common between vegetative reproduction and apomixis?

  1. Both are applicable to only dicot plants
  2. Both bypass the flowering phase
  3. Both occur round the year
  4. Both produce progeny identical to the parent.

Answer

(4) Both produce progeny identical to the parent.

Solution

As per NCERT, apomixis is the production of seeds without fertilisation; it is a form of asexual reproduction that mimics sexual reproduction.

∵ No meiosis and no fusion of gametes take place in either vegetative reproduction or apomixis,

∴ the offspring of both are genetically identical to the parent (clones).

Apomixis forms seeds, so it does not bypass the flowering phase; both occur in monocots as well as dicots (e.g. grasses show apomixis) and neither is restricted to a particular season.

Answer: (4)

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2

Filiform apparatus is a characteristic feature of

  1. suspensor
  2. egg
  3. synergid
  4. zygote.
AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)
3

Nucellar polyembryony is reported in species of

  1. Citrus
  2. Gossypium
  3. Triticum
  4. Brassica.
AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)
4

Which one of the following pollinations is autogamous?

  1. Geitonogamy
  2. Xenogamy
  3. Chasmogamy
  4. Cleistogamy
AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)
5

Wind pollination is common in

  1. legumes
  2. lilies
  3. grasses
  4. orchids.
AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)
6

What would be the number of chromosomes of the aleurone cells of a plant with 42 chromosomes in its root tip cells?

  1. 42
  2. 63
  3. 84
  4. 21
AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)
7

Apomictic embryos in Citrus arise from

  1. synergids
  2. maternal sporophytic tissue in ovule
  3. antipodal cells
  4. diploid egg
AIPMT 2010 (Prelims)
8

Transfer of pollen grains from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same plant is called

  1. xenogamy
  2. geitonogamy
  3. karyogamy
  4. autogamy
AIPMT 2010 (Prelims)
9

Wind pollinated flowers are

  1. small, brightly coloured, producing large number of pollen grains
  2. small, producing large number of dry pollen grains
  3. large producing abundant nectar and pollen
  4. small, producing nectar and dry pollen
AIPMT 2010 (Prelims)
10

Which one of the following pairs of plant structures has haploid number of chromosomes?

  1. Nucellus and antipodal cells
  2. Egg nucleus and secondary nucleus
  3. Megaspore mother cell and antipodal cells
  4. Egg cell and antipodal cells
AIPMT 2008
11

What does the filiform apparatus do at the entrance into ovule?

  1. It brings about opening of the pollen tube.
  2. It guides pollen tube from a synergid to egg.
  3. It helps in the entry of pollen tube into a synergid.
  4. It prevents entry of more than one pollen tube into the embryo sac.
AIPMT 2008

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