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Fertilisation is the fusion of gametes (sex cells) during sexual reproduction. In plants, fertilisation involves the fusion of male sperm cells from pollen grains with female egg cells in the ovule. Double fertilisation occurs in flowering plants, where two sperm cells fuse with two cells in the ovule - one sperm fuses with the egg to form the embryo, while the other fuses with two polar nuclei to form the endosperm which nourishes the seed. The pollen tube carries sperm from the pollen grain to the ovule f

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Nani

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