Multiple choice

A fruit results from maturation of one or more flowers. Which among the following statements does not characterise the fruit development in angiosperms?

  1. After double fertilization, these ovules will become seeds.

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

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

  4. Within the megagametophyte both the sperms unite with the egg, forming a zygote.

  5. The zygote gives rise to the endosperm.

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D Correct answer
Explanation

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