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If you squeeze a seed of orange you might observe many embryos of different sizes. How it possible ? Explain.

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An orange is a citrus fruit which shows polyembryony stage i.e., its seed possesses more than one embryo. Hence, when a seed is squeezed number of embryos of different sizes come out
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