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Lesson: Chapter 14 — Continuity of Life

14.2. Pollination 4 of 5

Question 4

In passion fruit, no fruit forms when a flower's own pollen is deposited on its own stigma. What is this adaptation called?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Self-sterility. The pollination happens; the fruit simply does not follow.

Herkogamy would place the stamens and stigma far apart — spider lily and orchid. Dichogamy would ripen them at different times. Unisexuality would put them in separate flowers altogether. All four prevent self-pollination, but only this one lets it happen and then refuses the result.

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