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Explain three outbreeding devices.
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Answer
- Unisexuality: Male and female flowers are present on different plants.
- Dichogamy: The condition in which the stamens and stigma of a bisexual flower mature at different times.
- Protandry: This is the condition where anthers mature earlier than the stigma and release pollens.
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