Botany · Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
NEET (UG) 2025 — Question 145
How many meiotic and mitotic divisions need to occur for the development of a mature female gametophyte from the megaspore mother cell in an angiosperm plant?
- Option A:
2 Meiosis and 3 Mitosis
- Option B:
1 Meiosis and 2 Mitosis
- Option C:Correct
1 Meiosis and 3 Mitosis
- Option D:
No Meiosis and 3 Mitosis
Answer: C
Step-by-step solution
Female gametophyte development requires one meiotic division to form megaspores and three mitotic divisions.
The embryo sac formation involves 1 meiosis + 3 mitosis = total of 4 nuclear divisions.
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- Exam
- NEET (UG) 2025
- Paper
- 2025 paper
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
- Topic
- Female Reproductive Organ
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