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When embryo originates from unfertilized egg, is known as

When embryo originates from unfertilized egg, is known as Correct Answer Parthenogenesis

When an embryo originates from an unfertilized egg, is known as Parthenogenesis.
It is a natural form of asexual reproduction in which the growth and development of embryos occur in a gamete (egg or sperm) without combining with another gamete.
In plants, parthenogenesis is a component process of apomixis. In algae, parthenogenesis can mean the development of an embryo from either an individual sperm or an individual egg.

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Consider the following statements regarding double fertilization and choose the correct answer:
1. At the time of the sperm's approach to the egg nucleus, the male nucleus has the appearance of a continuous thread rolled into a ball
2. It is only the presence of the two nucleoli which serves to distinguish the fertilized egg from the unfertilized egg
3. Finally, the male nucleolus increases in size and fuses with the female nucleolus thus closing the phenomenon of sexual union of the nuclei
4. The fusion of the male gamete with the secondary nucleus results in the formation of a sister embryo
Consider the following statements regarding recurrent type apomixis and choose the correct answer:
1. There is meiosis during the formation of megaspore
2. The embryo sac is diploid in nature
3. The embryo sac never develops from a cell of the archesporium
4. The development of embryo from a cell of an embryo sac other than egg is known as apospory
Determine the correctness or otherwise of the following Assertion (A) and the Reason (R).
Assertion: Somatic embryogenesis in plants is a twostep process comprising of embryo initiation followed by embryo production.
Reason: Embryo initiation is independent of the presence of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, whereas embryo production requires a high concentration of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid.
Consider the following statements and choose the correct answer:
1. In Oenothera type of monosporic embryo sac, the embryo develops from the micropylar megaspore of the tetrad
2. Antipodal cells are altogether absent in Oenothera type
3. The genus Trapa forms an 8-nucleate embryo sac of the Polygonurn type
4. Oenothera type of embryo sac development has been found to be a characteristic feature of the entire family Onagraceae
A dealer offers sells half of the eggs that he has and another half an egg to Anurag. Then he sells half of the balance eggs and another half an egg to Deepak. Then he sells half of the balance eggs and another half an egg to Sivani. In the end he is left with just 7 eggs and he claims that he never broke an egg. How many eggs did he start with?
What is the fate of corpus luteum in case of unfertilized egg?
Consider the following statements regarding poloyembryony and choose the correct answer:
1. False polyembryony includes the development of two or more embryo sacs within the Same nucellus, and the embryos are derived from different embryo sacs
2. In cleavage polyembryony, the zygote instead of giving rise to one embryo produces embryos by cleavage
3. According to Jeffrey (1895), in Erythronium americanum the "embryogenic mass" forms two or three embryos
When the embryo is formed from any cell of the embryo sac other than the egg, the phenomena is called as
Consider the following statements.
1. Fertilisation of the egg takes place inside the embryo sac.
2. Fertilised ovum form the embryo.
3. Endosperm is generally triploid.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Which of the following statements is/are correct? 1. Monosporic development is the method of embryo sac formation from a single megaspore. 2. The egg apparatus consists of two synergids and one egg cell.