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    Question

    Plant breeding uses principles from a variety of sciences to improve the genetic potential of plants. The process involves combining parental plants to obtain the next generation with the best characteristics. Breeders improve plants by selecting those with the greatest potential based on performance data, pedigree, and more sophisticated genetic information. Plants are improved for food, feed, fiber, fuel, shelter, landscaping, eco-systems services and a variety of other human activities.

    Name the process of formation of seeds without the act

    of fertilization is known as?
    A Parthenogenesis Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Parthenocarpy Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Apomixis Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Xenogamy Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Apomixis is a type of asexual reproduction with altered reproductive steps of sexually-reproducing plants thereby producing seeds without gamete fusion. In parthenogenesis seeds are not formed.

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