Question

3. A mass of nutritive material outside the embryo sac is called

Answer 1

Answer:

A mass of nutritive material outside the embryo sac is called Protoplasm. Pericarp.

Explanation:

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Answer 2

A mass of nutritive material outside the embryo sac is called Perisperm.

Explanation:

• Perisperm is the nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo in certain seeds.
• It is a tissue rich in nutrition which is derived from the nucellus and is deposited outside the embryo sac.
• Unlike edosperm, perisperm is diploid in nature. Both the tissue provides nutrition to the developing embryo.
• Perisperm is the remnant of nucellus which are persistent.  Endosperm is  formed after double fertilisation.
• Endosperm surrounds, stores food and provide nourishment to the developing embryo.