Microspore vs Pollen - What's the difference?
microspore | pollen |
Fine powder in general, fine flour (16th century usage documented by OED; no longer common.)
* "...and ther was good wyne of Gascoyne,... as well of pollen, as of other vitailes..." Froissart, Jean, 1338?-1410?; Berners, John Bourchier, Lord [https://archive.org/details/chroniclefroiss00froigoog]
A fine granular substance produced in flowers. Technically a collective term for pollen grains (microspores) produced in the anthers of flowering plants. (This specific usage dating from mid 18th century.)
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As nouns the difference between microspore and pollen
is that microspore is smaller of the two spores produced by plants, compare megaspore while pollen is fine powder in general, fine flour (16th century usage documented by OED; no longer common..pollen
English
(wikipedia pollen)Noun
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Katrina G. Claw
Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In plants, the ability to recognize self from nonself plays an important role in fertilization, because self-fertilization will result in less diverse offspring than fertilization with pollen from another individual.}}