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Read the following statement and answer the questions that follows:
"A guava fruit has 200 viable seeds.".
a) What are viable seeds?
b) Write the total number of:
i) Pollen grains , ii) Gametes in producing 200 viable guava seeds.
c) Prepare a flow-chart to depict the post-pollination events leading to viablle-seed production in a flowering plant.

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a) Seeds which have ability to germinate.
b) i) Pollen grains: 200 pollens, ii) Gametes: 600 gametes= Male gametes (400)/ female gametes (200).
c)
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