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Q.

How many meiotic divisions are required for the formation of 100 functional pollen grains and 100 functional megaspores respectively ?

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a

25, 100

b

100, 25

c

25, 25 

d

100, 100

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

One pollen mother cell undergoes meiosis and forms four pollen grains . So number of meiosis required for formation of 100 pollen grains are 25 . one megaspore mother cell undergoes meiosis and forms four megaspores , among four megaspores three will gets degenerates and remaining one megaspore develops as functional megaspore . So to produce one functional megaspore one meiosis is required . 100 functional megaspores formation requires 100 meiosis .

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