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Question
Name the pollinating agent of a flowering plant with large and coloured flowers with sticky stigma. State one characteristic feature of the pollen grains produced in such flowers.
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Solution
Insect pollinated.
One characteristic feature of pollen grain - pollen kit, sticky pollen grains.
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