Question
Discuss about any co-relation with example in pollination process.
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Answer
It can be explained by taking example of cross-pollination in yucca plant and moth. Pronuba yuccasalis. It is an obligatory relation in which pronuba sp. (moth) visit the yucca flower to lay its egg. While visiting flower for laying egg in locule of ovary, many pollens stick on the back of moth’s body are received by stigma to make pollination successful. Whereas eggs hatch out as larva in flower which completes life cycle outside the flower
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