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Dicliny allows prevention of 

Option: 1

Autogamy


Option: 2

Allogamy


Option: 3

Geitonogamy


Option: 4

Xenogamy


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As we have learnt in Outbreeding Devices -

  • Majority of flowering plants produce hermaphrodite flowers and pollen grains are likely to come in contact with the stigma of the same flower. 
  • Continued self-pollination results in inbreeding depression.
  • Flowering plants have developed many devices to discourage self-pollination and to encourage cross-pollination.

Wherein, 

Dicliny:

  • Cross-pollination is the rule among diclinous plants, i.e., those bearing unisexual flowers.
  • In dioecious plants, nothing else can take place. 
  • In monoecious plants, the only alternative is geitonogamy which, however, has the same effect as self-pollination.

Hence, the correct answer is option a.

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