1.Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
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What are chasmogamous flowers? Can cross-pollination occur in cleistogamous flowers? Give reasons for your answer.

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Solution

There are two types of flowers present in plants namely Oxalis and Viola chasmogamous and cleistogamous flowers.

Chasmogamous flowers have exposed anthers and stigmata similar to the flowers of other species.

Cross-pollination cannot occur in cleistogamous flowers. This is because cleistogamous flowers never open at all. Also, the anther and the stigma lie close to each other in these flowers. Hence, only self-pollination is possible in these flowers.

Standard 12
Biology

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