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The gametophytes are haploid and develop within sporophyte flowers. They are very small compared to the sporophyte and cannot live on their own. This is now the mature pollen grain (see fig 44-5): tube cell, generative cell (inside the tube cell) Once the pollen matures, the anther splits open and breezes carry away the pollen. Within the ovary of a carpel, masses of cells differentiate into ovules. The outer layers of the ovule are the integument. 3 rounds of mitosis, producing eight haploid nuclei. The larger center cell becomes the primary endosperm cell. Pollination and fertilization (see fig 44-8: pollination starts when pollen leaves an anther and lands on a stigma. The pollen absorbs water from the stigma: the tube cell breaks through the pollen coat, and the pollen grain grows a tube down through the style towards the ovary.

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