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Certain flowering plants have evolved highly specialised pollination strategies through coevolution, wherein the plant deceptively imitates visual cues, chemical signals, and surface patterns of female insects. This induces male insects to attempt mating with the flower, a phenomenon termed pseudocopulation, thereby ensuring pollination without offering any reward. Which one of the following plant-pollinator pairs best represents this pollination mechanism?
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- 1A temperate crop plant pollinated by hovering dipterans
- 2A forest tree pollinated by generalist nectar-feeding insects
- 3A tropical fruit tree dependent on an obligate insect pollinator
- 4A species of orchid that mimics female insects and a solitary bee✓
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A species of orchid that mimics female insects and a solitary bee
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