Each seed of an orange tree has one embryo from the zygote and three embryos from the nucellus…
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Each seed of an orange tree has one embryo from the zygote and three embryos from the nucellus. A student takes seeds.
- How many embryos are in the seeds?
- How many of them have the same genes as the mother plant?
- What per cent of the embryos is this?
Need a reminder? The key ideaShow
The ovary becomes the fruit, and its wall becomes the pericarp. A false fruit includes the thalamus. A parthenocarpic fruit forms without fertilisation. Apomixis makes seeds without fertilisation. In polyembryony, one seed has more than one embryo. A hybrid that is heterozygous for one gene gives heterozygous plants after generations of self-pollination.
The worked solution
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Given. seeds, each with zygotic and nucellar embryos.
Plan. Count the embryos in one seed, then in .
Step 1. All the embryos. .
Step 2. The nucellar embryos. They grow from cells of the nucellus, which have the genes of the mother plant. There are of them.
Step 3. The share. .
Answer: ; ; .
Check. .
Watch out. The zygotic embryo has genes of both parents.
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