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3. Enlist the steps of controlled cross-pollination. Would emasculation be needed in a cucurbit plant? Give reasons for your answer.
3. Enlist the steps of controlled cross-pollination. Would emasculation be needed in a cucurbit plant? Give reasons for your answer.
Biology | CBSE | Class 12 | NCERT Exemplar | Principles of Inheritance and Variation
3. Enlist the steps of controlled cross-pollination. Would emasculation be needed in a cucurbit plant? Give reasons for your answer.

Solution:

1. Selection of parents with desired characters

2 Emasculation and bagging procedures protect the stigma against contamination (unwanted pollen grains).

Cucurbits are monoecious (bisexual); having both male and female flowers on the same plant. There is a possibility of being self-pollinated. Hence emasculation is needed.

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