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OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson students should be able to:

  • give the meaning of pollination.
  • state two types of pollination.
  • explain the two types of pollination.
  • mention five agents of pollination.
  • outline the features of a cross pollinated flowers.
  • state two advantages and two disadvantages of self-pollination.
  • mention five features of a wind pollinated flower.
  • highlight five features of an insect pollinated flower.

POLLINATION IN PLANTS

Pollination is the process by which mature pollen grains are transferred from a mature stigma of a flower.

It may be to the same flower or another flower of the same or related species. Pollination is the first phase in sexual reproduction of flowering plants.

TYPES OF POLLINATION

  1. Self pollination
  2. Cross pollination
  3. SELF POLLINATION: Is the process in which mature pollen grains are transferred from the anther of a flower to the stigma of the same flower or a flower on the same plant.
  4. CROSS POLLINATION: Is the transferred of mature pollen grain from the anther to the stigma of another flower of the same or closely related species e g.

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