AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Wind, water, animals and insects are the different agents of pollination.

Detailed explanation-2: -In wind-pollinated flowers, the produced pollen grains are smaller and lighter in weight, which can be carried by the wind easily. In insect-pollinated flowers, the produced pollen grains are larger in size, sticky and spiny, which helps the insect to carry the pollen grains.

Detailed explanation-3: -Therefore, Air helps in the dispersal of seeds and pollen of flowers of several plants. Q.

Detailed explanation-4: -Most conifers and about 12% of the world’s flowering plants are wind-pollinated. Wind pollinated plants include grasses and their cultivated cousins, the cereal crops, many trees, the infamous allergenic ragweeds, and others.

Detailed explanation-5: -Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind. Almost all gymnosperms are anemophilous, as are many plants in the order Poales, including grasses, sedges, and rushes.