NEET 2012 · Class 12

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

The gynoecium consists of many free pistils in flowers of

  1. (A)Aloe
  2. (B)tomato
  3. (C)Papaver
  4. (D)Michelia

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

(c) A multicarpellary, apocarpous gynoecium of *Michelia*.

Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Section
1.2.2 The Pistil, Megasporangium (ovule) and Embryo sac
Page
8
Words matched
7 of 7

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How this line gives the answer

0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that Michelia has a multicarpellary, apocarpous gynoecium, which directly matches the question's requirement for 'many free pistils' (apocarpous means free pistils).

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