ovule
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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
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
Following fertilization of the egg, the ovule grows into a seed.
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
The purpose of these complex structures is, of course, in one way or another to secure the development of the ovule into a seed fitted to produce a new plant.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various
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