There are 10 flowers in one individual pea plant. In each microsporangium of every stamen of all the flowers, there are 30 microspore mother cells. How many pollen grains are formed from that plant?
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Pea flower → 10 stamens (diadelphous 
).
Each anther (stamen) is dithecous 
microsporangia.
Given: 
microsporangium; each MMC → 4 pollen grains.
Calculations:
Per microsporangium: 
pollen
Per stamen: 
pollen
Per flower: 
pollen
Per plant (10 flowers): 
48,000 pollen
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