Fruits

Question 1

Fruit

Answer 1

Fertilized mature ovary
And its contents
Together with other parts which may sometimes adhere to it

Question 2

When does ovary develop into fruit

Answer 2

When ovule develops into seed

Question 3

Parthenocarpic fruit

Answer 3

Banana

Question 4

Pericarp

Answer 4

Ovary fruit wall, around carpel

Question 5

Three layers of pericarp

Answer 5

Exocarp
Mesocarp
Endocarp

Question 6

Ovary chamber

Answer 6

Locule

Question 7

Simple fruit formed from

Answer 7

Single flower, single carpel, or united carpels

Question 8

Eg. Syncarpous ovary

Answer 8

Orange

Question 9

Aggregate fruit derived from

Answer 9

Single flower but from more than one separate pistils, several free carpels, apocarpous polycarpous, bunch of fruit obtained

Question 10

Multiple fruit derived from

Answer 10

Many flowers, an inflorescence clustered together so closely, ovary together with many accessory parts fuse together

Question 11

Dehiscent fruit

Answer 11

Split open when dry and release their seeds

Question 12

Indehiscent fruit

Answer 12

Dry fruits which do not break open at maturity

Question 13

Examples of indehiscent

Answer 13

Peas, crucifier, capsule of jimson weed

Question 14

Legumes

Answer 14

One folded elongated carpel, splits along two sutures lengthwise into two halves

Question 15

Pods

Answer 15

Legumes

Question 16

Bean

Answer 16

Dry dehiscent legume

Question 17

Peas

Answer 17

Dry dehiscent legume

Question 18

Groundnut

Answer 18

Dry dehiscent legume

Question 19

Modified legume

Answer 19

Lomentum

Question 20

Example of lomentum

Answer 20

Coronilla varia

Question 21

Difference between legume and follicle

Answer 21

Splits along one suture instead of two

Question 22

Suture of follicle

Answer 22

Dorsal

Question 23

Straphanthus kombe

Answer 23

Simple Dry dehiscent Follicle

Question 24

Suture of follicles

Answer 24

Dorsal, only one

Question 25

Two or more united carpels form

Answer 25

Capsules

Question 26

Modifications of capsule

Answer 26

Poricidal
Septicidal
Loculicidal
Circumcissible
Irregular

Question 27

Size of achene

Answer 27

Very small

Question 28

Ovary achene comes from

Answer 28

Superior

Question 29

Achene derived from

Answer 29

One carpel of a superior ovary

Question 30

Example of achene

Answer 30

Sunflower fruit

Question 31

Clematis

Answer 31

Simple dry indehiscent achene

Question 32

Cypsela derived from

Answer 32

Derived from two carpels of an inferior syncarpous ovary

Question 33

Ovary cypsela comes from

Answer 33

Inferior syncarpous ovary

Question 34

Why cypsela called a false fruit

Answer 34

Other floral parts also take part in fruit formation

Question 35

Samara derived from

Answer 35

One or two carpels with fruit wall forming wing like extensions

Question 36

Wings of samara

Answer 36

Extension on epicarp

Question 37

Mapple

Answer 37

Simple dry indehiscent Samara

Question 38

Function of samara wing

Answer 38

Membranous thin structure helps in dispersal of the fruit

Question 39

Nut derived from

Answer 39

Compound pistil from two or more carpels

Question 40

Ground nut is a

Answer 40

Legume

Question 41

Pericarp of nut

Answer 41

Hard bony wall

Question 42

Graminaceae aka

Answer 42

Poaceae

Question 43

Example of caryopsis

Answer 43

Maize, wheat, rice grains

Question 44

Caryopsis formed from

Answer 44

Simple pistil

Question 45

Shell of caryopsis

Answer 45

Thin but not bony

Question 46

Pericarp is fused with seed in

Answer 46

Caryopsis

Question 47

Pome

Answer 47

False fruit flesh derived from hypanthium that surrounds the papery carpels