Q. Perisperm differs from endosperm in :
- Having no reserve food
- Being a diploid tissue
- Its formation by fusion of secondary nucleus with several sperms
- Being a haploid tissue
Solution :
Correct option : B Perisperm differs from endosperm in being a diploid tissue. Endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most flowering plants around the time of fertilization. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils and protein. These are typically triploid but can vary widely from diploid. Endosperm that is diploid, resulting from the fusion of a pollen nucleus with one, rather than two, maternal nuclei .They are both nutritive layers in a seed. Perisperm develops from the nucellus of the seed and the endosperm develops when the sperm cell fuses with two haploid polar nuclei (contained in the central cell) in the centre of the embryo sac (or ovule). The resulting cell is triploid (3n). This triploid cell divides through mitosis and forms the endosperm, a nutrient-rich tissue, inside the seed.