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Agriculture · Q311

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 311

Q311

Development of female gametophyte directly from megaspore mother cell without meiosis is called

A.
Apogamy
B.
Apospory
Answer
C.
Syngamy
D.
Parthenospore

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Development of female gametophyte directly from megaspore mother cell without meiosis is called Apospory.
Apospory is the development of 2n gametophytes, without meiosis and spores, from vegetative, or nonreproductive, cells of the sporophyte.
Apospory develops in pteridophytes that have a mineral nutrition shortage due to insufficient minerals in the soil.