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In plants, pollination produces fertilized cells. What parts of a plant can eventually develop from a single fertilized cell?

The flowers, but not the stems
The stems, but not the flowers
Both the flowers and the stems
Neither the stems nor the flowers

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Performance
NGSS

Topic
Correct Answer: C
Misconceptions

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Students Responding Correctly

Group	Correct	Total	Percent
Overall	1342	3119	43%
Grades
6–8	784	1948	40%
9–12	556	1166	48%
Gender
Male	628	1499	42%
Female	697	1565	45%
Primary Language
English	1226	2789	44%
Other	86	257	33%

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Disciplinary Core Ideas: LS1.B In multicellular organisms individual cells grow and then divide via a process called mitosis, thereby allowing the organism to grow. The organism begins as a single cell (fertilized egg) that divides successively to produce many cells, with each parent cell passing identical genetic material (two variants of each chromosome pair) to both daughter cells. Cellular division and differentiation produce and maintain a complex organism, composed of systems of tissues and organs that work together to meet the needs of the whole organism.