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Q. How many pollen mother cells should undergo meiotic division to produce $64$ pollen grains?

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

Solution:

Each pollen mother cell $(PMC)$, by a meiotic division, gives rise to a group of four haploid microspores. Thus, $16$ pollen mother cells undergo meiotic divisions to produce $64$ pollen grains.