NEET 2015
- Exam
- NEET
- Year
- 2015
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
NEET 2015 · Botany · Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Male gametophyte in angiosperms produces :
Male gametophyte in angiosperms produces :
Options
- ASingle sperm and a vegetative cell
- BSingle sperm and two vegetative cells
- CThree sperms
- DTwo sperms and a vegetative cell
Correct answer
D. Two sperms and a vegetative cell
Step-by-step solution
In Angiosperms, pollen grain is the first male gametophyte.
Microspore divides mitotically forming two cells.
1. Vegetative cell: Bigger in size having abundant food reserve and large irregularly shaped nucleus.
2. Generative cell: Small and floats in the cytoplasm of the vegetative cell. It is spindle-shaped with dense cytoplasm and nucleus.
Shedding of pollen grains takes place at this two-celled stage in 60 % of angiosperms. In rest, the generative cell divides to form the male gametes (sperms) and pollen is shed at the three-celled stage.