Top-shaped multiciliate male gametes, and the mature seed which bears only one embryo with two cotyledons,…

Top-shaped multiciliate male gametes, and the mature seed which bears only one embryo with two cotyledons, are characterised features of:
  1. cycads
  2. conifers
  3. polypetalous angiosperms
  4. gamopetalous angiosperms.

Solution

Cycads are the gymnosperm having largest top shaped multiciliate male gametes. Conifers have sperm that do not have flagella, but instead are conveyed to the egg via a pollen tube. It is important to note that the seeds of gymnosperms are not enclosed in their final state upon the cone.

Asked in: NEET 2005

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