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ovule

[ov-yool, oh-vyool] / ˈɒv yul, ˈoʊ vyul /




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In addition to the 45-minute blocking process that prevents multiple sperm from fertilizing the same ovule, a repulsion signal also directs rejected suitors towards other unpaired ovules.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

The tube extends through the style and into the ovary, allowing sperm cells to reach the egg and central cells in an ovule for fertilization.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2024

The ovule wall will become part of the fruit.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Therefore, they generate microspores, which will generate pollen grains as the male gametophytes, and megaspores, which will form an ovule that contains female gametophytes.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Ovary with two abortive or empty cells and one containing a suspended ovule.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa




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