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Normally one embryo develops in one seed but when an orange seed is squeezed many embryos of different shapes and sizes are seen. Mention how it has happened.

Orange is an example of polyembryony. Various surrounding nucellar cells divide and protrude in the embryo sac thereby causing existence of multiple embryos in the sac in citrus.


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