Sunday, February 7, 2010

Double Fertilization

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  • Occurs Mostly in Angiosperms
  • pollen tube contains two haploid (1n) sperm
  • one sperm fuses with or fertilizes an egg to produce a diploid (2n) zygote which becomes the seed
  • The second sperm fuses with two, usually haploid, polar nuclei to form a triploid (3n) nucleus which becomes the endosperm

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