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Pollen tubes with sperm cells and vegetative nucleus

Legend:

1  sperms
3  pollen grain
2  tube (vegetative) nucleus

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Phylum: Angiospermae
Regnum: Plantae

Pollen grains germinate on the stigma and form pollen tubes that grow through the style to the ovarium, carrying each a pair of sperm cells to the ovarium. The ovarium hosts ovules that contain each one egg cell. In a process called double fertilization, one of the two sperm nuclei fuses with the egg cell and forms a zygote from which the embryo further develops, whereas the other sperm nucleus fuses with two other nuclei in the embryo sac to form the endosperm.

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last modified: 5 Jun 2014