J & K CET Medical J & K - CET Medical Solved Paper-2007

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    Pollen grains in Pinus are

    A)                  monosaccate                   

    B)                  bisaccate

    C)                  trisaccate                           

    D)                  nonsaccate

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

                    Pollen grains in Pinus are monosaccate. In Pinus, pollen grain is unicellular, three layered -outer exine, the middle exo-intine and innermost intine. The exine is cuticularized. It covers the spore only on one side. The rest of spore is covered by the exo-intine. The latter separates from the intine on the side where spore have been in contact with other spores in the tetrad and becomes inflated into two balloon-like expansions or wings. The wings or sacci are separated from the body or the corpus by the saccate hexine or the inner layer of exine.


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