Practice Double Fertilization (in Higher Plants) (5.5)

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Question 1.
What is double fertilization?
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Think about what happens in flowering plants.
Question 2.
What is the zygote?
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Consider what the result of fertilization is.
3Question 3.
What two fusions occur during double fertilization?
- A) Male gamete with ovule and male gamete with egg
- B) Male gamete with egg and male gamete with polar nuclei
- C) Egg cell with polar nuclei and female gamete with male nuclei
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One fusion forms the embryo; the other forms the food.
4Question 4.
True or False: The endosperm nourishes the zygote during development.
- True
- False
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Consider what happens after fertilization.
Question 5.
Discuss how double fertilization contributes to genetic variation in plants.
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Consider how genetic variation aids adaptation.
Question 6.
Compare double fertilization's efficiency in resource allocation to single fertilization.
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Think about the survival of the embryo in both cases.

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