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BotanySexual Reproduction in Flowering PlantsPre-fertilisation Structures and EventsEasy2 minPYQ_2020
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In maize, a meiocyte has 20 chromosomes. What will be the number of chromosomes in its vegetative cell of pollen grain and nucellus cell of ovule respectively?
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C
Solution:
Maize in an angiosperm. Meiocyte is a mother cell that undergoes meiosis to form spores in angiosperms. Meiocytes are diploid 2n. The vegetative cell of the pollen grain is haploid n while the nucellus cell of the ovule is diploid 2n. Thus their values will be 10 and 20 respectively
Stream:NTA_ABHYAS_NEETSubject:BotanyTopic:Sexual Reproduction in Flowering PlantsSubtopic:Pre-fertilisation Structures and Events
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