SEX DETERMINATION IN PLANTS - TAMIL EXPLANATION

#sexdeterminationtamil #sriparamakalyanischool #alwarkurichi ALTERNATION OF GENERATION    • ALTERNATION OF GENERATION - TAMIL EXPLANATION   Monomorphic and dimorphic differentiation . C.E.Allen (1917) discovered that the sex of a plant is determined by genes, environment and hormones. In Silene latifolia the sex determination is done by X and y chromosomes responsible for female and male respectively like human chromosomes. Here the X chromosomes are shorter than Y chromosomes. It has five different segments to control the sexual characters of Silene latifolia.