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n. - Larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants.

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  • This one haploid cell, the megaspore, then undergoes three successive mitoses to form the embryo sac, or the female gametopyhte.
  • Female cone develops two ovules on the upper surface of each cone scale; each ovule contains haploid megaspore.
  • The behaviour of the chromosomes in meiosis or reduction division both in the pollen mother-cells and in the megaspore mother-cells which give rise to the so-called...
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