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Plants with ovaries having only one or a few ovules, are generally pollinated by
bees
butterflies
birds
wind.
Solution
(d) : Anemophily is an abiotic means of pollination by wind and, being nondirectional, a wasteful process as the pollen would reach the stigma through wind is a hitormiss affair. During the transit of pollen through wind, a considerable amount of pollen is lost because it never reaches a proper stigma. To stand this loss, anemophilous plants have to produce enormous quantities of pollen. Anemophily is also associated with reduction in the number of ovules per ovary. Some models predict that plants benefit from numerous inexpensive flowers distributed throughout the inflorescence, each with a single ovule or a few ovules. In grasses there is just one ovule per ovary. This is to increase the probability of successful pollination of each ovule.