Haploid cells don’t always behave the same way! • In haploid insects like male honeybees (drones), their body is entirely haploid, and the cells divide by mitosis for growth and maintenance. • In lower plants — algae, fungi, and mosses — the plant body is haploid, and its cells divide repeatedly to form a gametophyte. • But in higher plants (angiosperms), haploid cells such as pollen grains and egg cells don’t divide further; they only take part in fertilization to form a diploid zygote.
Understanding where haploid cells divide — and where they don’t — is an important part of the Cell Cycle and Cell Division chapter for Class 11 Biology.
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Haploid cells don’t always behave the same way!
• In haploid insects like male honeybees (drones), their body is entirely haploid, and the cells divide by mitosis for growth and maintenance.
• In lower plants — algae, fungi, and mosses — the plant body is haploid, and its cells divide repeatedly to form a gametophyte.
• But in higher plants (angiosperms), haploid cells such as pollen grains and egg cells don’t divide further; they only take part in fertilization to form a diploid zygote.
Understanding where haploid cells divide — and where they don’t — is an important part of the Cell Cycle and Cell Division chapter for Class 11 Biology.
Watch my detailed explanation on Bio by Priti to make this concept crystal clear.
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