What is common between vegetative reproduction and apomixis?
- Both are applicable to only dicot plants
- Both bypass the flowering phase
- Both occur round the year
- 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)