Pollination carried out with water as the agent is called

Anemophily

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Entomophily

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Hydrophily

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Homophily

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Solution

The correct option is C
Hydrophily

Pollination is the transfer of pollen to a stigma of a flower to allow fertilization. Insects, wind, water, birds, bats, animals and snails are the agents of pollination in plants. When the pollination takes place through the agency of water, it is known as hydrophily.

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Assertion (A): Plants pollinated by abiotic agents produce enormous amounts of pollen as compared to plants pollinated by biotic agents.

Reason (R): Pollen grains coming in contact with stigma is a chance factor in anemophily and hydrophily.

In flowering plants which type of pollination is usually takes place either anemophily or entomophily?

	List I		List II
A	Pisum sativum	I	Chasmogamy and cleistogamy
B	Commelina	II	Self pollination
C	Water hyacinth	III	Cross pollination and self sterility
D	Abution	IV	Protogyny and entomophily
E	Solanum	V	Entomophily and anemophily

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