Egg

• Title

  Egg

• Definition

  The female reproductive part of a plant. In the flowering plants (angiosperms), the egg is located at the micropylar end of the megagameophyte flanked on each side by a synergid cell. After fertilization the ege develops into the embryo and the embryo develops into the adult plant.

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