Organisms belonging to pteridophytes, gymnosperms angiosperms and most of the animals including human beings.

Options

A. Produce gametes by meiosis
B. Produce gametes by mitosis
C. Have diploid parental body
D. Both A and C.

Answer

D

Explanation

Organisms belonging to pteridophytes, gymnosperms, angiosperms and most of the animlas including human beings, the parental body in diploid.
Meiosis, the reduction division, has to occur if a diploid body has to produce haploid gametes.
In diploid organisms, specialised cells called meiocytes (gametes mother cell) undergo meiosis.