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NEET 2020
Exam
NEET
Year
2020
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

NEET 2020 · Botany · Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Which of the following is incorrect for wind-pollinated plants?

Which of the following is incorrect for wind-pollinated plants?

Options

  1. AWell exposed stamens and stigma
  2. BMany ovules in each ovary
  3. CFlowers are small and not brightly coloured
  4. DPollen grains are light and non-sticky

Correct answer

B. Many ovules in each ovary

Step-by-step solution

Characteristics of wind-pollinated flowers:
i) The pollen grains are light and non – sticky so that they can easily be carried by air currents.
ii) The flowers have well–exposed stamens so that the pollens are easily dispersed into wind currents.
iii) Flowers have a large feathery stigma to easily trap the airborne pollen grains.
iv) Nectar is absent.
v) Presence of a single ovule in each ovary
vi) Flowers packed into an inflorescence.
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