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Agriculture · Q563

Plant Pathology

Graduate and Post Graduate · Agriculture · question 563

Q563

Perisperm is

A.
Outer part of embryo sac
B.
Degenerate synergid
C.
Degenerate secondary nucleus
D.
Remains of nucellus
Answer

Answer: Option D

Solution

Answer: Option D
Solution:
Perisperm is remains of nucellus.
Perisperm is a nutritive tissue of a seed derived from the nucellus and deposited externally to the embryo sac.
The nucellus is the central and chief part of a plant ovule that encloses the female gametophyte.