Class 12 NEET Biology Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants Questions Part 1

(b) : Apomixis is abnormal kind of sexual reproduction in which egg or other cells associated with egg (synergids, antipodals, etc.) develop into embryo without fertilization and meiosis. Development of embryos directly from sporophytic tissues like nucellus and integuments is called adventive embryony which is also a type of apoximis. E.g., Citrus, mango.