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Who is the author of the book “Introduction to the Embryology” of Angiosperms?
A. Maheshwari
B. Birbal Sahni
C. T.S. Mahabale
D. J.S. Singh

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Hint: Embryology is the part of biology that examines the prenatal growth of gametes, breeding, and growth of fetuses and embryos. Additionally, embryology includes the subject of congenital disorders that happen before birth, understood as teratology.

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Option A: Panchanan Maheshwari is the author of the book “An Introduction to the Embryology of Angiosperms”. In this book, Maheswari included a description of the endosperm and embryo, also a description of the growth of the male and female gametophytes and propagation. Therefore this is the correct option.

Option B: Birbal Sahni FRS was an Indian botanist who examined the remains of the Indian subcontinent. He also took advantage of geology and palaeontology. Therefore this is an incorrect answer.

Option C: T.S. Mahabale studied the aims of taxonomy and the speciation of various sorts of liverworts and recommended that it would be enough to consider the cyto-taxonomy of different kinds of liverworts and mosses concerning their geographical spread and habitat since varieties is a cytotaxonomical population group within a particular region. Therefore, this is an incorrect answer.

Option D: J.S. Singh is a scientist, academic and a retired professor of phytology and environmental physiology at Banaras Hindu University. Therefore, this is an incorrect option.

Thus, option A) Maheshwari is the correct answer.

Note: Karl Ernst von Baer was an Estonian educator examining fetuses and improvement when he performed a discovery that set the basis for modern parallel embryology.