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Complete the following flow chart
Pollen mother cell → Pollen tetrad ⟶Pollen grain ⟶vegetative cell and_

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Development of male gametophyte

The following events take place during the formation of pollen grains:-

* Pollen mother cells divide by meiosis and produce haploid pollen tetrads or microspore tetrads.

* The tetrads further give rise to four individual microspores.

* The nucleus of the microspores divide by mitosis and produce two daughter cells-one smaller generative cell and one larger vegetative cell. Most of the pollen grains shed off at the 2 celled stage.


Generative cell

Generative cell is a small cell having only a few cellular organelles. It lies freely in the cytoplasm of the vegetative cell. It further divides to give rise to the two male gametes.

Vegetative cell

Vegetative cell is a large cell with a nucleus that is lobed and a cytoplasm with vacuoles.

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