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Fertilization Follows. During the spring of the female cone's second year, the male and female gametes are ready. The pollen grows a pollen tube, which enters a little hole in the ovule's skin near its basal end, called the micropyle. The tube enters the ovule, and the sperm goes down the tube and into the ovule.
She doesn't. Rosalind Franklin died shortly after, due to cancer from the radiation used in her x ray experiments with DNA.
