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Q. In flowering plants, the total number of nuclei involved in double fertilisation is

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Solution:

Double fertilisation is an event unique to angiosperms. It involves fusion of one male gamete (haploid) with egg (haploid) to form zygote (diploid) that gives rise to embryo accompained with fusion of other male gamete (haploid) with two polar nuclei (secondary nucleus) to form primary endosperm nucleus (PEN) that gives rise to a nutritive tissue called endosperm. Hence total of 5 haploid nuclei are involved in double fertilisation process.