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  2. Oogonium - Wikipedia

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    A haploid nucleus (gamete) from the antheridium will then be transferred through the fertilization tube into the oosphere, and fuse with the oosphere's haploid nucleus forming a diploid oospore. The oospore is then ready to germinate and develop into an adult diploid somatic stage.

  3. Floral morphology - Wikipedia

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    Its nucleus is generally haploid, that is, it has half the chromosomes of the plant that gave rise to it. The oosphere fuses with one of the generative nuclei of the pollen grain during double fertilization to give rise to the embryo. The other generative nucleus will fuse with the polar nuclei of the middle cell and give rise to the endosperm.

  4. Egg cell - Wikipedia

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    A nonmotile female gamete formed in the oogonium of some algae, fungi, oomycetes, or bryophytes is an oosphere. [2] When fertilized, the oosphere becomes the oospore. [clarification needed] When egg and sperm fuse during fertilisation, a diploid cell (the zygote) is formed, which rapidly grows into a new organism.

  5. Megagametogenesis - Wikipedia

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    Each haploid nucleus then undergoes two rounds of mitosis which creates 4 haploid nuclei on each end of the embryonic sac. One nucleus from each set of 4 migrates to the center of the embryonic sac. These form the binucleate endosperm mother cell. This leaves three remaining nuclei on the micropylar end and three remaining nuclei on the ...

  6. Ovule - Wikipedia

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    Location of ovules inside a Helleborus foetidus flower. In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells. It consists of three parts: the integument, forming its outer layer, the nucellus (or remnant of the megasporangium), and the female gametophyte (formed from a haploid megaspore) in its center.

  7. Fertilisation - Wikipedia

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    The nucleus of the other sperm cell fuses with two haploid polar nuclei (contained in the central cell) in the centre of the gametophyte. The resulting cell is triploid (3n). This triploid cell divides through mitosis and forms the endosperm , a nutrient -rich tissue , inside the seed . [ 7 ]

  8. Oomycete - Wikipedia

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    M: meiosis, P: plasmogamy, K: karyogamy, n: haploid, 2n: diploid. Most of the oomycetes produce two distinct types of spores. The main dispersive spores are asexual, self-motile spores called zoospores , which are capable of chemotaxis (movement toward or away from a chemical signal, such as those released by potential food sources) in surface ...

  9. Human fertilization - Wikipedia

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    This results in a mature haploid ovum and the release of a polar body. [22] The nucleus of the oocyte is called a pronucleus in this process, to distinguish it from the nuclei that are the result of fertilization. Drawing of an ovum. The sperm's tail and mitochondria degenerate with the formation of the male pronucleus. This is why all ...