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Plant Growth And Development

Question
CBSEENBI11025908

When an ovary develops into a fruit without fertilization it is called

  • porogamy

  • apospory

  • apogamy

  • parthenocarpy

Solution

D.

parthenocarpy

Parthenocarpicfruits are seedless and develop from ovary without fertilization.

Porogamy is the fertilization of a seed plant involving passage of the pollen tube into the ovule by the micropyle.

Apospory is the development of 2n gametophytes, without meiosis and spores, from vegetative, or non- reproductive, cells of the sporophyte.

Apogamy is the development of 1n sporophytes without gametes and syngamy from vegetative cells of the gametophyte.