Geitonogamous flowering plants are genetically autogamous but functionally cross-pollinated. Justify.

• On the same plant, the transfer of pollen grains from the anther of a flower to the stigma of another flower takes place is called geitonogamy.

• Geitonogamous flowering plants in which the gametes come from the same parent plant, so it is autogamous. The pollen grains are being passed to a different flower which requires a pollinating agent,therefore it is an example of cross-pollination.

• Thus, geitonogamous flowering plants are genetically autogamous but functionally cross-pollinated.