CAIE IGCSE Biology 16.3.10 Defining Cross-pollination

Practise identifying cross-pollination as pollen transfer between flowers on different plants of the same species.

Exam points

describe transfer from anther to stigma on a different plant as cross-pollination
include the same-species condition to complete the definition accurately
distinguish different-plant transfer from self-pollination within one plant

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Fig. 2.1 is a photograph of a spider plant, Chlorophytum comosum. Spider plants can reproduce by producing an identical plantlet, which grows away from the single parent plant.

Fig. 2.1

The hazel tree uses cross-pollination rather than self-pollination.

Describe cross-pollination.

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