Question

A dioecious plant has

• A. Bisexual flowers
• B. Either male or female flowers
• C. Both male and female flowers
• D. Bisexual and neutral flowers

Answer 1

Answer: (B)

Either male or female flowers

A dioecious plant is a unisexual plant because it either has male or staminate flowers or the female or pistillate flowers. Date palm, mulberry, asparagus are some example of dioecious plants. They perform the cross-pollination or the xenogamy. A monoecious plant has both the pistillate and staminate flowers. The plant is bisexual but the flowers are unisexual or incomplete. Corn is an example of a monoecious plant. They perform geitonogamy.

Hence, the correct answer is 'Either male or female flowers'.