Question:

Xenogamy is

Updated On: Jun 18, 2022
  • Pollination between two flowers of two different plants
  • Pollination between two different flowers of same plant on same branch
  • Pollination between anthers and stigma of same flowers
  • A mechanism of parthenocarpy
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Xenogamy is pollination between two flowers of two different plants.
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Concepts Used:

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