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Morphology Of Flowering Plants

Question
CBSEENBI11025725

Ratio between number of stamens in nine male flowers and number of carpels in three female flowers in Euphorbia is

  • 1 : 1

  • 1 : 3

  • 2 : 1

  • 2 : 3

Solution

A.

1 : 1

One male flower is represented by a single stalked stamen. So, nine male flower will have nine stamens.

Number of carples in one female flower is 3. So, in three females flowers numbers of carples will be  3 ×3 = 9

Therefore, 

Ration of 9 male stamenNumber of carpels of 3 female flower = 99 = 1