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In seedless plants, a fertilized egg will develop into _____.

A) spores

B) a sporophyte

C) gametes

D) a fruit

E) a gametophyte

A

Answer: B. Sporophyte.

In seedless plants, a fertilized egg will develop into a sporophyte (i.e. the diploid phase of the life cycle of a plant), which produces spores by meiosis to give rise to gametophytes, which then produce gametes by ordinary mitotic division, the end product is a zygote.

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