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Sexual Reproduction In Flowering Plants

Question
CBSEENBI12002274

Coconut water from a tender coconut is

  • Immature embryo

  • Free nuclear endosperm

  • Innermost layers of the seed coat

  • Degenerated nucellus

Solution

B.

Free nuclear endosperm

The coconut water from tender coconut that we are familiar with, is nothing but free nuclear endosperm (made up of thousands of nuclei) and the surrounding white kernel is the cellular endosperm. In the most common types of endosperm development, the Primary Endosperm Nucleus (PEN) undergoes successive