Question

Question 7: What are chasmogamous flowers? Can cross-pollination occur in cleistogamous flowers? Give reasons for your answer.

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Answer 1

chasmogamous flower: flowers are open as like normal flower.
cleistogamous flower: flowers are closed , so.cross pollonation is not possible.

Answer 2

Answer:

༺Chasmogamous flowers are the flowers that have open petals such that the reproductive organs are exposed to allow cross-pollination.Cleistogamous flowers are small, closed flowers with unexposed reproductive organs. Therefore, they cannot undergo cross-pollination. However, they undergo self-pollination since the stigma and anther are present near each other.༻