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Question
Explain following term:
Polyembryony
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Solution
It is the development of more than one embryo inside the seed, which consequently results in the emergence of multiple seedlings. Polyembryony may be true or false depending upon whether many embryos arise in the same embryo sac in the same ovule.
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