Geitonogamous flowering plants are genetically autogamous but functionally cross-pollinated. Justify.

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Geitonogamous flowers are those where the pollen grain comes from the same plant. The pollen is transferred to the stigma of another flower of the same plant. So it is functionally cross-pollination by involving pollinating agent but genetically it is autogamy (as the plant is same).

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