BSC 2011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 38: Pollen Tube, Microsporangia, Stamen

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Angiosperms have 3 unique features: flowers, fruit, double fertilization. Microsporangia: pollen sacs in the anther: diploid cells go through meiosis = male gametophyte (pollen), pollen has 2 haploid nuclei: Tube nucleus: 1 sperm develops into a pollen tube. Generative nucleus: divides into 2 sperm cells, which remain inside the pollen tube. Ovary: ovules form within a diploid cell, soon 4 haploid megaspores form. Eventually get 8 haploid nuclei, but only 3 are most important: 1 haploid nucleus = egg; will combine with sperm nucleus to form zygote. 2 polar nuclei = will fuse with sperm nucleus to make 3n endosperm nucleus. Pollination: pollen lands on stigma, pollen tube made from pollen grain. Pollen tube grows down from anther to ovary: when pollen tube reaches ovule, double fertilization occurs. Double fertilization: double fertilization is the union of 2 sperm cells forming zygote & endosperm. Unique to angiosperms: 1 sperm fertilizes the egg = zygote.

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