In maize, a meiocyte has 20 chromosomes. What will be the number of chromosomes in its vegetative cell of pollen grain and nucellus cell of ovule respectively?

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In maize, a meiocyte has 20 chromosomes. What will be the number of chromosomes in its vegetative cell of pollen grain and nucellus cell of ovule respectively?, 20, 40, 20, 10, 10, 20, 40, 20

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Maize in an angiosperm. Meiocyte is a mother cell that undergoes meiosis to form spores in angiosperms. Meiocytes are diploid 2n. The vegetative cell of the pollen grain is haploid n while the nucellus cell of the ovule is diploid 2n. Thus their values will be 10 and 20 respectively

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