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KCET · BIOLOGY · STD 12 - 1. Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

A flower has 10 stamens each having bilobed dithecous anther. If each microsporangium has 5 pollen mother cells, how many pollen grains would be produced by the flower?

  1. A 1600
  2. B 200
  3. C 400
  4. D 800
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(D) 800

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Total microsporangia = \( 10 \text{ stamens} \times 2 \text{ lobes/anther} \times 2 \text{ microsporangia/lobe} = 40 \) Total pollen mother cells = \( 40 \text{ microsporangia} \times 5 \text{ PMCs/microsporangium} = 200 \)