Q 1 :    

Coconut fruit is a                    [2017]

  • berry

     

  • nut

     

  • capsule

     

  • drupe

     

(4)

Coconut fruit is a fibrous drupe with a fibrous mesocarp.

 



Q 2 :    

Placenta and pericarp are both edible portions in                  [2014]

  • apple

     

  • banana

     

  • tomato

     

  • potato

     

(3)

A true fruit consists of a pericarp (fruit wall) formed from the ovary wall and seeds formed from ovules. The pericarp is divisible into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Tomato is a berry fruit derived from a bicarpellary, syncarpous, bi- to tetralocular ovary with a swollen placenta. A berry consists of a membranous skin represented by the epicarp. The mesocarp is the middle fleshy part. The endocarp, septa and placenta are pulpy and edible.

 



Q 3 :    

An aggregate fruit is one which develops from              [2014]

  • multicarpellary syncarpous gynoecium

     

  • multicarpellary apocarpous gynoecium

     

  • complete inflorescence

     

  • multicarpellary superior ovary

     

(2)

An aggregate fruit or etaerio is a group of simple fruitlets that develop from free ovaries (apocarpous condition) of a single flower (single gynoecium).