FRUITS&SEEDS Flashcards
Matured, ripened ovary or group of ovaries
Fruit
2 parts of fruits
Pericarp
Seed
Caivty, house, male
Microsporangium
2n
Microsporocytes
Female
Megasporangium
Generative cell
Tube cell
Carry the cell
Miscrospore
Wall of a fruits which develops from the ovary wall
Pericarp
3 parts of pericarp
Exocarp
Mesocarp
Endocarp
3n
Food supply
Endosperm
Outer skin like layer
Exocarp
Middle layer that often becomes soft and fleshy
Mesocarp
Innermost layer closely surroynd the seeds
Endocarp
4 kinds of fruits baaed on the origin
Simple
Aggregate
Multiple
Accessory fruits
Derevied from the enlargement of the ovary
True fruits
Fevelops from a single ovary
Simple fruits
Formed from a group of ovaries produced in a single flower
Aggregate fruits
Composed of the ovaries of a cluster of flowers that are born on the same stalk
Multiple fruits
2 kind of fruits base on the pericarp texture
Fleshy
Dry
5types of fleshy fruits
Berry
Hesperidium
Pepo
Drupe
Pome
Pericarp is soft
Fleshy fruits
With succulent pericarp
Berry
Thickned berry with hard and leathery pericarp with soft rind
Hesperidium
With hard rind
Pepo