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Polyembryony is nothing but
Option: 1
occurrence of more than one seed in a fruit

Option: 2
occurrence of multiple seeds without embryos

Option: 3
occurrence of two or more embryos in one seed

Option: 4
the fruit formed as a result of parthenocarpy

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- As we have learnt:

Adventive Embryony:

An embryo develops directly from a diploid cell other than an egg like that of nucellus and integument, e.g., Citrus, Opuntia.
It gives rise to a condition called polyembryony or the phenomenon of having more than one embryo.
There may be more than one egg cell in an embryo sac or more than one embryo sac in an ovule.
All the egg cells may get fertilised.
Synergids and antipodal cells may also form embryos.
In gymnosperms, polyembryony can also occur due to cleavage of growing embryo.
It is called cleavage polyembryony.
The occurrence of polyembryony due to fertilisation of more than one egg is called simple polyembryony.
Formation of extra embryos through sporophytic budding is called adventive polyembryony.
Polyembryony is quite common in Onion, Groundnut, Mango, Lemon, Orange.

Hence, the correct answer is option c.

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