ovule
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In addition to the 45-minute blocking process that prevents multiple sperm from fertilizing the same ovule, a repulsion signal also directs rejected suitors towards other unpaired ovules.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
The tube extends through the style and into the ovary, allowing sperm cells to reach the egg and central cells in an ovule for fertilization.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2024
When the pollen lands on a female scale, a pollen tube grows toward the female gametophyte, which consists of an ovule containing the megaspore.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Part B shows a blowup of the megasprophyll, which has an oval ovule at its base.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The whole flower may be looked upon as an adventitious bud bearing two pairs of leaves; each pair becomes concrescent and forms a perianth, the apex of the shoot being converted into an orthotropous ovule.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
