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Agriculture · Q835

Genetics And Plant Breeding

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 835

Q835

Ovule is attached to the placenta with a slender stalk, known as

A.
Funicle
B.
Raphe
C.
Hilum
Answer
D.
Chalaza

Answer: Option C

Solution

Answer: Option C
Solution:
The ovule is attached to the placenta with a slender stalk, known as the Hilum.
A hilum is a scar or mark left on a seed coat by the former attachment to the ovary wall or the funiculus. Hilum represents the junction of the ovule with the funicle in a seed.
A hilum can also be a nucleus of a starch grain; the point around which layers of starch are deposited. On a bean seed, the hilum is called the "eye".