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    Double fertilization or double fertilisation (see spelling differences) is a complex fertilization mechanism of angiosperms. This process involves the...
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    produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following double fertilization. It is triploid (meaning three chromosome sets per nucleus) in most...
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    Fertilisation (redirect from Fertilization)
    Faure, J.E. (1999). "Double fertilization in flowering plants: origin, mechanisms and new information from in vitro fertilization". In Cresti, M.; Cai...
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    parenthood project during in vitro fertilization and after discontinuation of unsuccessful in vitro fertilization". Fertility and Sterility. 92 (1): 149–156...
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    gymnosperm double fertilization process occurring solely with sperm nuclei and not with the fusion of developed cells. After fertilization is complete...
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    a complex sequence called double fertilization: a female gametophyte produces an egg cell for the purpose of fertilization. (A female gametophyte is called...
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    flower following double fertilization in an angiosperm. Because gymnosperms do not have an ovary but reproduce through fertilization of unprotected ovules...
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    December 1930) was a Russian Empire and Soviet biologist. He discovered double fertilization in plants in 1898. The standard author abbreviation Navashin is used...
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    include some insect-pollinated plants such as Cucurbita squashes. Double fertilization requires two sperm cells to fertilise cells in the ovule. A pollen...
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    plants have in addition a phenomenon called 'double fertilization'. In the process of double fertilization, two sperm nuclei from a pollen grain (the microgametophyte)...
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    seed by double fertilization, but one sperm nucleus unites with the egg nucleus and the other sperm is not used. Sometimes each sperm fertilizes an egg...
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    Rajam, Manchikatla; Sahijram, Leela; Krishnamurthy, K.V. (eds.), "Pre-fertilization: reproductive growth and development", Plant Biology and Biotechnology...
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  • nuclei to the ovule to fertilize the egg cell and central cell within the female gametophyte in a process termed double fertilization. The resulting zygote...
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    into the ovule to fertilize the egg cell and endosperm nuclei within the female gametophyte in a process termed double fertilization. The resulting zygote...
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  • chromosome mosaicism Double fertilization: Can result in 46XX/46XY chimerism, which occurs when an X sperm and a Y sperm fertilize an ovum Fusion of two...
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    angiosperms reproduce sexually through double fertilization. Different from nucellar embryony, double fertilization occurs via the syngamy of sperm and egg...
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    give rise to the polyploid (typically triploid) endosperm. This double fertilization is unique to flowering plants, although in some other groups the...
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    plants Reproduction Evolution Ecology Alternation of generations Double fertilization Evolutionary development Evolutionary history timeline Flora Germination...
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    William E. (September 2011). "Female gametophyte development and double fertilization in Balsas teosinte, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis (Poaceae)". Sexual...
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    plants Reproduction Evolution Ecology Alternation of generations Double fertilization Evolutionary development Evolutionary history timeline Flora Germination...
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    and the central cell in double fertilization. The first fertilization event produces a diploid zygote and the second fertilization event produces a triploid...
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    produced when a haploid egg cell is fertilized by a haploid sperm and each sporophyte cell therefore has a double set of chromosomes, one set from each...
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    William E. (September 2011). "Female gametophyte development and double fertilization in Balsas teosinte, Zea mays subsp. parviglumis (Poaceae)". Sexual...
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    Yolk (redirect from Double-yolked egg)
    yolk in an egg cell affects the developmental processes that follow fertilization. The yolk is not living cell material like protoplasm, but largely passive...
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  • at maturity. The ploidy of the aleurone is (3n) [as a result of double fertilization]. The aleurone layer surrounds the endosperm tissue of grass seeds...
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    pollination, with double fertilization occurring soon after pollination. The zygote becomes dormant immediately after fertilization with delay of development...
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    Therefore, upon fertilization the endosperm will be 5n rather than the typical 3n. Megasporangium Microspore Spore Double fertilization Estrada-Luna, A...
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    conifers) and angiosperms (flowering plants), along with demonstrating double-fertilization in angiosperms. He came up with one of the modern laws of plant cytology:...
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