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An anther has 1200 pollen grains. How many pollen mother cells must have been there to produce them?
BiologyCell Cycle and Cell Division
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The pollen mother cell $(2 \mathrm{n})$ undergoes meiotic cell divisions, each such cell produces four daughter cells with haploid (n) number of chromosomes. Three hundred pollen mother cells would have to be there to produce 1200 pollen grains, because one pollen mother cell will produce four pollen grains.

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