Lecture 1

Question 1

Fruit crop

Answer 1

A perennial plant producing edible true botanical fruit

Question 2

Nut

Answer 2

dry, indehiscent fruit with hard
shell (exocarp)

Question 3

Trees

Answer 3

single main woody stem (trunk), shoot tip
renewal growth

Question 4

Vines (Kianas)

Answer 4

woody plants trained to have a
single trunk at base but use twining stems or
tendrils to support the canopy. Grown on trellises.

Question 5

shrubs

Answer 5

new growth from the base
or crown even if trained to be a single stem

Question 6

Herbaceous

Answer 6

are non-woody plants, do not usually
have secondary growth.

Question 7

Complete flower

Answer 7

has all four sets of a flower

Question 8

Incomplete flower

Answer 8

lacks one or more of the four sets

Question 9

Perfect

Answer 9

has both male (staminate) and female (pistillate) parts

Question 10

monoecious flower/plant

Answer 10

has both male (staminate) and female (pistillate) parts

Question 11

Imperfect

Answer 11

lacks either the male or female part

Question 12

dioecious flower/plant

Answer 12

lacks either the male or female part

Question 13

Monocots

Answer 13

in units of 3’s (banana, date palm, pineapples)

Question 14

Dicots

Answer 14

in units of 4’s or 5’s (citrus, mangoes, guava, papaya)

Question 15

Determinate

Answer 15

the top most flower is most mature & open first (e.g.
cyme-lime)

Question 16

Indeterminate

Answer 16

the top most flower is the least mature & open last (e.g.
Raceme – mango)

Question 17

Pollinators

Answer 17

Include Insects, wind, humans, and animals from a pollenizer

Question 18

Ovule

Answer 18

immature seed consisting of the female gametophyte, nucellus
(tissue around the gametophyte), and integuments

Question 19

Ovary

Answer 19

the female organ that produces the egg, if not simple, then divided into carpels, each bearing 1 to many ovules (e.g. citrus sections)