Which of this is false about self-pollination?

Yielding new varieties is possible.

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Pollen grains are not wasted.

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Flowers need not be very attractive

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It leads to degradation in the quality of offspring.

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Solution

The correct option is A
Yielding new varieties is possible.

In self-pollination, as the flowers involved belong to the same plants, they have the same genetic makeup and hence yielding a different variety is completely impossible.

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Which of this is false about self-pollination?

The correct option is A Yielding new varieties is possible. In self-pollination, as the flowers involved belong to the same plants, they have the same genetic makeup and hence yielding a different variety is completely impossible.

The correct option is A
Yielding new varieties is possible.

In self-pollination, as the flowers involved belong to the same plants, they have the same genetic makeup and hence yielding a different variety is completely impossible.