Which one of following may require pollinators, but is genetically similar to autogamy ?

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1.Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

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Which one of the following may require pollinators, but is genetically similar to autogamy ?

Apogamy

Cleistogamy

Geitonogamy

Xenogamy

(NEET-2015)

Solution

(c) : Geitonogamy involves transfer of the pollen from one flower of a plant to the stigma of another flower of the same plant. As the pollen has to move from one flower to another flower, it requires a pollinating agent. Yet it is genetically similar to autogamy, as both the flowers of the plant, share the same genotype of the plant.

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