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Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants — Part 3: Double fertilisation, seed and fruit

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Double fertilisation and after

Part 3 — what happens when the pollen tube reaches the embryo sac, and how an ovule becomes a seed and an ovary becomes a fruit.

In this lesson you will

  • Explain double fertilisation and the products of syngamy and triple fusion
  • Describe the development of endosperm and embryo, and compare dicot and monocot embryos
  • Describe how the ovule becomes a seed and the ovary a fruit
  • Explain apomixis, polyembryony and parthenocarpy and their uses