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Q.

Which of the following encourages cross-pollination?

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a

Homogamy

b

Self-incompatibility

c

Bisexuality

d

Cleistogamous flowers

answer is B.

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Flowering plants have developed many devices to discourage self pollination and to encourage cross-pollination. To prevent inbreeding plants have developed self-incompatibility. This is a genetic mechanism and prevents self-pollen (from the same flower or other flowers of the same plant) from fertilizing the ovules by inhibiting pollen germination or pollen tube growth in the pistil.

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