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How does pollen reach the egg? How are the leaves modified and why?

How does pollen reach the egg? How are the leaves modified and why?-example-1
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As we know the pollen grain germinates once has reached the female cone, extending a pollinic tube that grows until reaches the entrance to the gametophyte, there the nuclei travel into the oosphere and fertilization occurs, after that the new embryo will start to divide, and grow.

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