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Multiple choice biology fruit and seed morphology of the fruit fruit plants: structure and function

What is the edible part of orange? 

  1. Unicelled placental hairs

  2. Unicelled endocarpic hairs

  3. Multicelled endocarpic hairs

  4. Multicelled placental hairs
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

A hesperidium is a modified berry with a tough, leathery rind. The peel contains volatile oil glands in pits. The fleshy interior is composed of separate sections, called as carpels, filled with fluid-filled vesicles that are actually specialized hair cells. The outer ovary wall becomes the thick spongy layer of the rind, while the inner ovary wall becomes very juicy with several seeds. Thus, orange is a hesperidium, in this fruit the endocarp projects inwards forming distinct chambers and epicarp and mesocarp fuse to form the separable part. 

Thus, the correct answer is option B.

Multiple choice biology fruit and seed morphology of the fruit fruit plants: structure and function

A small, dry, one-seeded fruit with its pericarp fused with the seed-coat, developing from a monocarpellary gynoecium is called ____________.

  1. Cypsela

  2. Siliqua

  3. Caryopsis

  4. Samara
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

A small dry one-seeded fruit with pericarp fused with seed coat which develops from monocarpellary gynoecium i.e from a superior monocarpellary ovary is called caryopsis. 

Examples- Maize, wheat. 

Multiple choice biology fruit and seed morphology of the fruit fruit plants: structure and function

The type of fruit seen in Jack is.

  1. Citrus fruit

  2. Syconus

  3. Sorosis and multiple fruit

  4. Aggregate
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

  • Multiple fruits are developed from the complete inflorescence which in jack fruits case is spadix. And it is thus called a sorosis type of fruit. 
  • Flowers with many free carpels are apocarpous as seen in the aggregate fruits. 
  • Syconus is the other type of multiple fruits which develops on the ripening of the hypanthium or the coenanthium inflorescence
  • The correct answers are multiple fruit and sorosis 

The correct option is C.