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?

  1. Option A:

    2 Meiosis and 3 Mitosis

  2. Option B:

    1 Meiosis and 2 Mitosis

  3. Option C:

    1 Meiosis and 3 Mitosis

    Correct
  4. 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
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Topic
Female Reproductive Organ
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