NEET2013BotanySexual Reproduction in Flowering PlantsActual
Megaspores are produced from the megaspore mother cells after:
Options
- Amitotic division
- Bformation of thick wall
- Cdifferentiation
- Dmeiotic division.
Correct answer
B. formation of thick wall
Step-by-step solution
A hypodermal cell of the nucellus enlarges to form an archesporia cell which transformed into a megaspore mother cell. Each diploid megaspore mother cell undergoes meiosis to form linear tetrad of megaspores. Three megaspores degenerate and remaining functional one enlarges at the chalazal end. Related Theory The functional megaspore undergoes three subsequent mitotic divisions and forms the eight nuclei. The eight nuclei arrange themselves into three groups. Three nuclei migrate at the micropylar end and forms the