Question

Homogamy- Write short notes.

Answer 1

Homogamyfrom a sociologist's standpoint is marriage and mating with a person of a similar socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, age, education level, and/orreligion. It is often a subconscious and natural manner of choosing marriage and sexual mates. Homogamy is a form ofassortative mating, which is a type of sexual selection, in which a person chooses a sexual mate with similar genotypes and phenotypes to themselves,more often than choosing a mate with different ones.

Answer 2

Short note on Homogamy:

• Homogamy is one of the mechanisms involved in self pollination process.

• In this mechanism, the androecium and the gynoecium of the flower gets matured at same time and is involved in self pollination process.

• Self pollination refers to type of pollination which occurs within the same flower that is the pollen grains from the anther of the flower falls on its own stigma.

• It doesn’t require any pollinating agents.

• Apart from Homogamy, other self pollination mechanism includes chasmogamy, Cleistogamy etc.