Question

In a flowering plant, archesporium gives rise to ..............

• A. Only the wall of the sporangium
• B. Both the wall and the sporogenous cells
• C. Wall and the tapetum
• D. Only tapetum and the sporogenous cells.

Answer 1

The correct option is B Both the wall and the sporogenous cells

Archesporium is a cell or cell structure in a sporophyte from which spores may later develop during the alternate generation. Archesporium cell divides into primary parietal cell which later forms the antehr wall and primary sporogenous cells which form the microspore mother cell.