Male gametophyte in angiosperms produces :
- Single sperm and a vegetative cell
- Single sperm and two vegetative cells
- Three sperms
- Two sperms and a vegetative cell
Solution
In Angiosperms, pollen grain is the first male gametophyte.
Microspore divides mitotically forming two cells.
1. Vegetative cell: Bigger in size having abundant food reserve and large irregularly shaped nucleus.
2. Generative cell: Small and floats in the cytoplasm of the vegetative cell. It is spindle-shaped with dense cytoplasm and nucleus.
Shedding of pollen grains takes place at this two-celled stage in 60 % of angiosperms. In rest, the generative cell divides to form the male gametes (sperms) and pollen is shed at the three-celled stage.
Asked in: NEET 2015 (Phase 2)
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