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Agriculture · Q14

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 14

Q14

Dispersal of spores by human is known as

A.
Anemochory
B.
Zoochory
C.
Anthropochory
Answer
D.
Hydrochory

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
Dispersal of spores by a human is known as Anthropochory.
The dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
Human dispersers differ from animal dispersers by having much higher mobility, based on the technical means of human transport. Humans may disperse seeds by many various means and some surprisingly high distances have been repeatedly measured.