Question

The number of petals and stamens In a flower is always equal. Correct the following statement and rewrite it?

Answer 1

The correct statement is:

The number of petals and sepals in a flower may be equal or different in different plants.

Explanation of the correct statement:

1. The number of petals and sepals in a flower might not always be equal.
2. This is because of the fact that not all flowers have the same alignment and not all flowers has the same morphology.
3. There are flowers which are trimerous, tetramerous or pentamerous and based on symmetry they are classified as Actinomorphic or zygomorphic.

Hence flowers don’t have equal number of petals and sepals.