Kathleen is correct.
The male gametes are produced by division of the cells within the pollen
grains, the spermatogenous cell in conifers and the generative cell of
angiosperms.
jim
At 01:57 PM 9/2/99 -0700, Kathleen Archer wrote:
>I'm not a morphologist, but I think the correct name for pollen is immature
>male gametophyte. It is the life stage that bears the male gametes, but is
>not itself a gamete.
>Kath Archer
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