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The Reproductive structure of the Angiosperms MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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Which of the following flowers only once in its life-time ?

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Revision of Flower- The Reproductive structure of the Angiosperms
  • The organs specialised to perform sexual reproduction in the angiosperms are called flowers. 
  • We have read the details of inflorescence and parts of flowers in the chapter morphology of flowering plants.
  • Flowers are modified condensed reproductive shoots.
  • Flowers are formed when the appropriate conditions set for the reproductive maturity of the plant. 
  • This occurs in response to the hormones we have discussed in plant physiology lectures.
  • Hormones bring about physiological changes in the shoot apices wherein, the shoot apices are transformed into an inflorescence over which floral primordia develop.
  • The primordial grow into floral buds which undergo anthesis to form flowers.
  • A typical flower has a base called the thalamus which bears the four whorls as:
    • Calyx made of sepals
    • Corolla made of petals
    • Androecium made of stamens
    • Gynoecium made of the pistil
  • This chapter will focus on the stamens and pistil because these are the male and female reproductive parts of a flower.


 

Stamen
  • Stamen is the male reproductive organ or the microsporophyll of a flower.
  • There are two parts of a typical stamen – the long and slender stalk called the filament, and the terminal generally bilobed structure called the anther.
  • The proximal end of the filament is attached to the thalamus or the petal of the flower.
  • The number and length of stamens are variable in flowers of different species.
  • A typical angiosperm anther is bilobed or dithecous.
  • The anther is the fertile part of the stamen.
  • The two lobes of the anther are separated in the anterior region by a deep groove.
  • On the backside, the two lobes are connected by a sterile parenchymatous tissue called connective.

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