Biology 12th Edition

Published by McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN 10: 0078024269
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Chapter 23 - Plant Evolution and Diversity - Assess - Page 434: 12

Answer

b. carpel-produces pollen

Work Step by Step

Unlike the other options that are correctly matched, the carpel does not produce pollen. Pollen sacs of the anther, produce microspores during meiosis. The microspores undergo mitosis to become immature pollen grains with two cells. The carpel, instead, consists of the stigma style ovary and ovule. During meiosis, it produces four megaspores. Therefore, the pair that is mismatched is b. carpel-produces pollen.
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