Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants Ques 104

104. Adventive polyembryony in citrus is due to

(a) nucellus

(b) integuments

(c) zygotic embryo

(d) fertilised egg

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Answer : a

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(a) The embryos arising from the maternal sporophyte tissues are called adventive embryos. In polyembryonate species the adventive embryo arises by the proliferation of the nucellus cells.