Question

If there are 4 pollen mother cells in anthers, what will be the number of pollen grains formed?

Answer 1

16..because from one pollen mother cell 4 pollen grains are formed so from 4 pollen mother cell..4*4=16

Answer 2

Gametes will be formed by meiosis of the diploid microspore mother cell. So each microspore mother cell will give rise to 4 pollen grains. Therefore there will be a total of 400×4 pollen grains which comes to 1600 pollen grains.