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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
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1.
What is funicle?
2.
Mention one application of pollen bank. How are pollen stored in a bank?
3.
Normally one embryo develops in one seed, but when an orange seed is squeezed, many embryos of different shapes and sizes are seen. Mention how it has happened.
4.
How do the pollen grains of Vallisneria protect themselves?
5.
Why is banana considered a good example of parthenocarpy?
6.
The meiocyte of rice has 24 chromosomes. Write the number of chromosomes in its endosperm.
7.
Differentiate between syncarpous and apocarpous pistils with an example for each.
8.
Why is emasculation of a bisexual flower necessary in crop improvement programme?
9.
Differentiate between the two cells enclosed in a mature male gametophyte of an angiosperm.
10.
Name the three parts of pistil and mention one function of each of them.
11.
Differentiate between perisperm and endosperm, giving one example of each.
12.
Write the mode of pollination in Vallisneria and water lily. explain the mechanism of pollination in Vallisneria.
13.
Write the fate of the egg cell and polar nuclei after fertilization.
14.
Puneet used to like beautiful flowers but not the insects flying in the garden.He discussed his plan but his father advised him not to do so as it will affect seed formation in ornamental plants of the garden.
Read the above passage and answer the following questions:
(i) Was the decision of Puneet to kill insects of garden with insecticide right?
(ii) Why did his father advise him not to do so?
(iii) Are chemical insecticides safe for living organisms including human beings?
15.
(a) Differentiate between: Autogamy, geitonogamy and xenogamy.
(b) Explain the events that occur during pollen-pistil interaction.
16.
Which one of the following represents an ovule, where the embryo sac becomes horse-shoe shaped and the funiculus and micropyle are close to each other?
Amphitropous
Circinotropous
Atropous
Anatropous
17.
The pollen tube usually enters the embryo sac
Through one of the synergids
By directly penetrating the egg
Between one synergid and central cell
By knocking off the antipodal cells
18.
Pick the odd one out
Chalazogamy
Porogamy
Mesogamy
Allogamy
19.
Which type of association is found in between entomophilous flower and pollinating agent?
Mutualism
Commensalism
Cooperation
Coevolution
20.
Egg apparatus consists of
egg
egg and polar nuclei
Egg and synergids
Egg and antipodal cells
1.
( )
Funicle is the stalk of the ovule.
2.
( )
The pollen grains can be stored for years in liquid nitrogen (-196 \(^{ \circ }{ C }\)) in pollen blanks and used for crop breeding programmes.
3.
( )
Orange shows polyembryony, the phenomenon of occurrence of more than one embryo in a seed.
In this case, some of the nucellar cells surrounding the embryo sac and develop into embryos.
4.
( )
Pollen grains of Vallisneria are protected from wetting by the mucilaginous covering.
5.
( )
Banana fruit develops without fertilisation of the ovary; hence it is considered parthenocarpic.
6.
( )
36 chromosomes.
7.
| Syncarpous pistils | Apocarpous pistil |
| When the carpels of a multicarpellary pistil are fused together, it is called a syncarpous pistil, e.g. poppy, brinjal, etc | When the carpels of a multicarpellary pistil are free, it is a called an apocarpous pistil, e.g. Michelia |
8.
1. In crop improvement programmes, pollen grains of the selected male parent only, are used for pollination.
2. So, emasculation of a bisexual flower is necessary to prevent contamination of the sigma with self-pollen.
9.
| Vegetative cell |
Generative cell |
|
It is larger and irregularly-shaped. Its cytoplasm is less dense and nucleus is large and irregular in shape. It has abundant food reserve. It does not divide further. |
It is smaller and spindle-shaped. It has a dense cytoplasm and a small round nucleus. It does not have food reserve. It divides mitotically to form two male gametes. |
10.
The three parts of a pistil and their functions are:
(i) Stigma - it acts as the platform where the pollen grains are lodged during pollination.
(ii) Style - it exposes the stigma for easy pollination.
(iii) Ovary - it encloses the ovule(s) inside which is the female gametophyte.
11.
| Perisperm | Endosperm |
|
- It is the remnant of nucellus, formed in the ovule before fertilisation. - The cells are diploid, e.g. black pepper, beet. |
- It is the product formed from the primary endosperm cell, in the ovule after fertilisation. - The cells are triploid, e.g. castor, maize. |
12.
Vallisneria is pollinated by water.
Water lily is pollinated by insects.
In Vallisneria, the male flowers (later pollen grains) are released on the surface of water and keep floating.
The female flowers reach the surface of water by uncoiling of the long stalk
When the passively carried male flowers/pollen grains meet the female flowers, pollination is effected.
The stalk of the female flower coils and the flower is drawn inside the water column.
13.
A fertilized ovule undergoes the following changes in the ovary in an angiosperm plant:
Unfertilized ovule \(\rightarrow \) Fertilized ovule \(\rightarrow \)Seed
Funiculus \(\rightarrow \) Present
Hilunf \(\rightarrow \) Present
Integument \(\rightarrow \) Seed coat
Outer integument \(\rightarrow \) Testa
Inner integument \(\rightarrow \) Tegmen
Chalaza \(\rightarrow \) Present
Micropyle \(\rightarrow \) Present
Nucellus \(\rightarrow \) Absent or present as perisperm
Embryo Sac:
Antipodal cells \(\rightarrow \) Degenerate
Synergid cells \(\rightarrow \) Degenerate
Secondary nucleus \(\rightarrow \) Endosperm
Egg \(\rightarrow \) Embryo
When the unfertilized ovule undergoes double fertilization, it makes fertilized ovule and then seeds. In this process funiculus and hilum are present. Outer integument makes testa and inner integument is tegmen. Chalaza and micropyle are present but nucellus is absent, partly persish. as perisperm.
In embryo sac antipodals and synergids degenerate. The central cell makes endosperm, and the egg changes into embryo.
14.
(i)No,it was not a wise decision.
(ii) Insecticides kill the insects.These insects are very important for plants as many of these are helpful in carrying out pollination which is very essential for fertilization and seed formation in sexually reproducing species.
(iii)No,many insecticides pollute and, being non-biodegradable, have harmful effects on living organisms
15.
(a) Differences:
| Autogamy | Getonogamy | Xenogamy |
| It refers to the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same flower | It refers to the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of a flower to the stigma of same plant. | It refers to the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of a flower to the stigma of another flower on a different plant of the same species. |
| It does not lead to genetic variation in the progency | It does not lead to genetic variation in the progeny. | It leads to genetic variation in the progeny |
| No pollinating agent is needed. | A pollinating agent is needed. | A pollinating agent is needed. |
(b) Pollen-Pistil Interaction.
The stigma/pistil has the ability to recognise the right type of pollen, i.e. the compatible pollen of the same species and rejects the wrong type of pollen grains.
It is the result of interaction between the chemical components of the pollen and those of stigma. - A compatible pollen grain starts its germination on the stigma.
The intine grows out through one of the germ pores as a protuberance.
The contents of the pollen move into this tube, i.e. the tube nucleus (nucleus of the vegetative cell) and the generative cell (or the two male gametes in those species where pollen is liberated in the three-celled stage).
The pollen tube grows through the tissues of stigma and style and enters the ovule through micropyle.
It enters the embryo sac through the filiform apparatus of one of the synergids to liberate the male gametes.
The events from the deposition of pollen on the stigma till the pollen tube enters the ovule, are collectively referred to as pollen-pistil interaction.
16.
(a)
Amphitropous
17.
(a)
Through one of the synergids
18.
(d)
Allogamy
19.
(a)
Mutualism
20.
(c)
Egg and synergids
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