Question:

Identify the incorrect statement related to Pollination:

Updated On: Jun 23, 2024
  • Pollination by water is quite rare in flowering plants
  • Pollination by wind is more common amongst abiotic pollination
  • Flowers produce foul odours to attract flies and beetles to get pollinated
  • Moths and butterflies are the most dominant pollinating agents among insects
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The Correct Option is D

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Among the animals, insects particularly bees are the dominant pollinating agents. Pollination carried out through water is called hydrophily.
Pollination by water is quite rare in flowering plants (only 2%).
Pollination by wind is more common amongst abiotic pollination. Wind pollination requires the light and non-sticky pollen grains so that they can be transported in wind currents.
Some plants whose flowers are pollinated by flies and beetles smell this way(foul odour), mainly to attract flies and beetles, which normally lay their eggs in faeces and rotting materials.
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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Sexual reproduction in flowering plants takes place or happens when the production of a new organism occurs from two parents by making use of their gametes or sex cells. Both sexual and asexual reproduction can be found in plants. Nearly all flowering plants reproduce sexually. Flowers play a captious role in the process as it carries both the male and female reproductive parts commonly known as androecium and gynoecium respectively.

An individual flower comprises the following parts - 

  • Pedicle
  • Calyx
  • Petals
  • Sepals
  • Stamen
  • Pistil
  • Receptacle