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The fusion of male and female gamete is called fertilization. In angiosperm, the male gametes are brought to the egg containing embryo sac by a pollen tube (Strasburger, 1884). The phenomenon is called siphonogamy.

After entering one of the synergids, the pollen tube releases the two haploid non motile male gametes into the cytoplasm of the synergid. Generative or Syngamy or True fertilisation : One of the male gametes moves towards the egg cell and fuses with its nucleus thus completing the syngamy. This results in the formation of a diploid cell, the zygote or oospore it further develops into an embryo. Vegetative or False fertilization: The other male gamete moves towards the two haploid polar nuclei or diploid secondary nucleus located in the central cell and fuses with them to produce a triploid primary endosperm nucleus (PEN). As this involves the fusion of three haploid nuclei it is termed triple fusion. The central cell after triple fusion becomes the primary endosperm cell (PEC) and develops into the endosperm (3n). Since two types of fusions, syngamy and triple fusion take place in an embryo sac the phenomenon is termed double fertilisation, an event unique to flowering plants. It was discovered by Nawaschin, 1898 in Fritillaria and Lilium.

The fusion between male and female gamete is called as

A) Parethenocarpy

B) Parthenogenesis

C) Fertilisation

D) Somatic cloning