Question

Seed formation without fertilization in flowering plants involves the process of ______.

Options

• Sporulation

• Budding

• Somatic hybridization

• Apomixis

Answer 1

Seed formation without fertilization in flowering plants involves the process of Apomixis.

Explanation:

Apomixis (asexual seed creation) occurs when a plant acquires the ability to skip the most basic parts of sexual reproduction, including meiosis and fertilisation, without the necessity for male fertilisation. The resulting seed germinates a plant that develops as a maternal clone.