Multiple choice

A fruit is a mature ovary of a flowering plant that is edible and usually eaten raw. Which is the following statements does NOT characterise the fruit development in angiosperms?

  1. Each microsporangium contains diploid microspore mother cells.

  2. Within the megagametophyte both the two sperm unites with the egg, forming a zygote.

  3. After pollination, a tube grows from the pollen through the stigma into the ovary.

  4. The zygote gives rise to the endosperm.

  5. The pericarp is often differentiated into two or three distinct layers.

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Within the megagametophyte one of the two sperm unites with the egg, forming a zygote, and the second sperm enters the central cell forming the endosperm mother cell, which completes the double fertilisation process.