Which of the following can be expected if scientists succeed in introducing an apomictic gene into hybrid varieties of crops?

  • A
    Polyembryony will be seen and each seed will produce many plantlets.
  • B
    Seeds of hybrid plants will show longer dormancy.
  • C
    Farmers can keep on using the seeds produced by the hybrids to raise new crop year after year.
  • D
    There will be segregation of the desired characters only in the progeny.

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$R$: Both types show mitotic as well as meiotic division.

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