NEET 1988 · Class 12

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Male gametophyte of angiosperms is shed at

  1. (A)four celled pollen grain
  2. (B)three celled pollen grain
  3. (C)microspore mother cell
  4. (D)anther

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

Pollen grains may have two cells (a vegetative cell and generative cell) or three cells (a vegetative cell and two male gametes) at the time of shedding.

Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Section
intro ~~HUMAN REPRODUCTION~~ SEXUAL REPRODUCTION IN FLOWERING PLANTS
Page
22
Words matched
27 of 27

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How this line gives the answer

0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that pollen grains may have three cells at the time of shedding, which directly matches the correct answer about the male gametophyte being shed at the three-celled pollen grain stage.

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