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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Pollination – Wind Pollination
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Concepts tested
- corn tassels
- Wind pollination in coconut
All Questions
2023 1 question
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What is the function of tassels in the corn cob?
The tassels represent the stigma and style and trap wind-borne pollen.
Wind pollinated flower e.g. Zea mays (maize) have non-essential whorls such as calyx, corolla, bracts and bracteoles that are not showy. Flowers are devoid of scent and nectar. The tassels represent the stigma and style. Pollen grains are dry, very small sized, non-sticky and unwettable, so that they can be carried by wind to long distances. Stigma is hairy, feathery that catches the wind borne pollens.
2001 AIPMT 1 question
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Anemophily type of pollination is found inAnemophily is pollination by wind.
Coconut (a palm) has small, inconspicuous flowers in large inflorescences and produces large amounts of light, dry pollen carried by the wind.
Salvia is pollinated by insects (bees, lever mechanism), bottle brush by birds, and Vallisneria by water (hydrophily).
So anemophily is found in coconut.
