Pollen Grain and Gynoecium Study in Botany
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What is the study of pollen grain known as?

  • Gynospore
  • Polynology (correct)
  • Botany
  • Pistillography
  • What is the outer surface of a pollen grain highly variable in?

  • Color
  • Texture
  • Size
  • Shape (correct)
  • What is the individual member of the pistil called?

  • Carpel (correct)
  • Petal
  • Stamen
  • Sepal
  • What are the two membranes that make up the exine of a pollen grain?

    <p>Outer thick and rough, inner thin and smooth</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the swollen basal portion of the Pistil called?

    <p>Ovary</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the components that compose a pollen grain?

    <p>Carbohydrate, protein, fat, water</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the substance called that covers the exine in insect-pollinated pollengrains?

    <p>Pollenkit</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the terminal portion of the Pistil that lies at the tip of the style called?

    <p>Stigma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the upward outgrowth of the Ovary seen in multicarpellary, unilocular pistils?

    <p>Style</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the process of formation of male gametophyte from microspore called?

    <p>Microgametogenesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What encloses the embryosac and provides nourishment to the developing embryo?

    <p>Nucellus</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What connects ovules to the Placenta or Ovary wall?

    <p>Raphae</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the narrow passage that helps in the entry of the pollentube?

    <p>Micropyle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which structure in angiosperms consists of a vegetative cell and two male gametes?

    <p>Pollen tube</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the female gametophyte that contains the egg apparatus, antipodial cell, and polar body called?

    <p>Embryo sac</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the place of origin of the integument or basal swollen part of the nucellus called?

    <p>Chalaza</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the formation of the megaspore mother cell called?

    <p>Megasporogenesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the group of parenchymatous tissue that connects the ovary with the ovule called?

    <p>Placentation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which type of ovule do the micropyle and chalaza lie on either side of the funicle?

    <p>Campylotropous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'Syncarpous' refer to in relation to the pistil structure?

    <p>Fusion of carpels</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of ovule has the micropyle facing upwards with an elongated funicle showing unilateral growth?

    <p>Circinotropous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the defining feature of an Apocarpous pistil?

    <p>Free carpels</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of ovule has the micropyle near the hilum and facing downward towards the placenta?

    <p>Anatropous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What causes the Ovule to be inverted in Anatropous ovules?

    <p>Curvature of the funicle</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe a flower that is divided longitudinally in two similar halves in any plane passing through the center?

    <p>Actinomorphic</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Where is the ovary located in a flower with perigyny?

    <p>Around all other floral parts</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of flower has an ovary that is below other floral parts?

    <p>Epigynous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the formation of microspores or pollen grains inside microsporangia?

    <p>Micrsporogenesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which type of anther consists of 4 microsponangia in two anther lobes?

    <p>Dithecous</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What type of flower has an ovary that is superior?

    <p>Hypogynous</p> Signup and view all the answers

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