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Explain what happens when:(a) Testosterone is released in males.(b) Pollen grains falls on the stigma of flowers. |
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Answer» When testosterone is released in males the secondary sexual characters such as facial hair start growing. Only after pollination, when pollen has landed on the stigma of a suitable flower of the same species, can a chain of events happen that ends in the making of seeds. A pollen grain on the stigma grows a tiny tube, all the way down thestyleto theovary. This pollen tube carries a malegameteto meet a female gamete in anovule. In a process calledfertilisation, the two gametes join and their chromosomes combine, so that the fertilised cell contains a normal complement of chromosomes, with some from each parent flower. |
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