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Sexual Reproduction in flowering Plants

Multiple Choice Questions

161.

Exine of pollen grain is made up o

pectocellulose
lignocellulose
sporopollenin
pollen kit

162.

Seedless banana is

parthenocarpic fruit
multiple fruit
drupe fruit
true fruit

163.

Ovule integument gets transformed into

seed
fruit wall
seed coat
cotyledons

164.

Sporopollenin is chemically

homopolysaccharide
fatty substance
protein
heteropolysaccharide

165.

During replication of DNA, Okazaki fragments are formed in the direction of

3' ➔ 5'
5' ➔ 3'
5'➔5'
3' ➔ 3'

166.

If you want to develop hybrid seeds within a bisexual flower, the following part needs to be removed from the same flower

stigma
ovary
anther
oviduct

167.

Xenogamy is essentially a type of

cleistogamy
allogamy
autogamy
homogamy

168.
Megasporangium is equivalent to

embryo sac

fruit

nucellus

ovule

ovule

An ovule or megasporangium generally has a single embryo sac formed from a megaspore through reduction division. It is a small structure attached to the placenta by means of a stalk called funicle.

Ovule $\to$ Megaspore Mother Cell (MMC) by meiosis $\to$ Megaspore

Each has one or two protective envelopes called integuments. Nucellus is a mass of cells enclosed with the integuments. Fruits develop from the ovary of flower, other floral parts degenerate and fall off.