NEET 2025
- Exam
- NEET
- Year
- 2025
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
NEET 2025 · Botany · Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A)...
Given below are two statements: One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : A typical unfertilised, angiosperm embryo sac at maturity is 8 nucleate and 7-celled.
Reason (R) : The egg apparatus has 2 polar nuclei.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :
Options
- ABoth and are true and is the correct explanation of
- BBoth and are true but is NOT the correct explanation of
- CA is true but is false
- D is false but is true
Correct answer
C. A is true but is false
Step-by-step solution
A typical Angiosperm embryo sac, at maturity is 7 -celled and 8 nucleate.
Polar nuclei are situated below the egg apparatus in the large central cell.
Three cells are grouped together at micropylar end and constitute the egg apparatus.
Hence, is true but is false.