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Double Fertilisation in a Flowering Plant

  • Biology
  • Class 12
  • 3D model
  • English

Double Fertilisation in a Flowering Plant: a 3D model for Class 12 Biology, covering A typical (Polygonum-type) embryo sac has seven cells and eight nuclei before fertilisation…, The pollen tube grows from the stigma through the style into the ovary, enters the ovule through the micropyle…, The tube releases two male gametes into the synergid; the tube itself only delivers them and does not become the embryo, Syngamy: one male gamete (n) fuses with the egg nucleus (n) to make the diploid zygote (2n), Triple fusion: the other male gamete (n) fuses with the two polar nuclei (n + n) to make the triploid primary….

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Also called

double fertilisation · double fertilization · fertilisation in flowering plants · fertilization in angiosperms · syngamy · triple fusion · embryo sac · female gametophyte · megagametophyte · polygonum type embryo sac · 7-celled 8-nucleate embryo sac · seven cells eight nuclei · egg apparatus · egg cell · synergids · filiform apparatus · antipodal cells · central cell · polar nuclei · primary endosperm nucleus · PEN · zygote · endosperm · embryo development · pollen tube · pollen tube growth · ovule · anatropous ovule · micropyle · chalaza · integuments · nucellus · funicle · pistil · stigma · style · ovary · post-fertilisation events · seed formation · fruit formation

Topics

  • A typical (Polygonum-type) embryo sac has seven cells and eight nuclei before fertilisation…
  • The pollen tube grows from the stigma through the style into the ovary, enters the ovule through the micropyle…
  • The tube releases two male gametes into the synergid; the tube itself only delivers them and does not become the embryo
  • Syngamy: one male gamete (n) fuses with the egg nucleus (n) to make the diploid zygote (2n)
  • Triple fusion: the other male gamete (n) fuses with the two polar nuclei (n + n) to make the triploid primary…
  • Because two fusions happen in one embryo sac, the process is called double fertilisation…
  • Each male gamete is used once: one for syngamy and one for triple fusion
  • The primary endosperm nucleus divides first to form endosperm (free-nuclear, then cellular)…
  • Embryo and endosperm come from separate fusion products and stay in separate places: embryo at the micropylar end…
  • After fertilisation the synergids and antipodals degenerate, the integuments become the seed coat…

About this model

A GLB file of about 1464 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Made for Lably. Label text is drawn from the Helvetiker Bold typeface outlines distributed with three.js (MgOpen licence, Copyright 2004 MAGENTA Ltd.). Science after NCERT Class 12 Biology, Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants. | Original model made for Lably (all geometry authored procedurally, no third-party meshes).

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