The pollen tube releases the two male gametes first into:
1. The vicinity of the egg cell.
2. The vicinity of polar nuclei.
3. In the cytoplasm of synergids.
4. In the cytoplasm of antipodals.

What functions as the embryonic root of the plant?
  

Double fertilization, a characteristic feature of angiosperms, was discovered independently by Sergei Nawaschin and Léon Guignard. in France. It involves the joining of a female gametophyte with two male gametes. In double fertilization, the maternal contribution to the genetic constitution of the endosperm is: 
1. same that of the embryo
2. double that of the embryo
3. triple that of embryo
4. quadruple that of embryo