Fruit

Question 1

Definition of Fruit

Answer 1

A ripened ovary of a flower

Question 2

Vegetable

Answer 2

Edible portion of a plant which does not include the ovary; of, pertaining to the vegetative portion of the plant.

Question 3

Kinds Of Fruits

Answer 3

1. Simple Fruits
   • Fleshy
   • Dry
2. Compound Fruits
   • Aggregate Fruits
   • Multiple Fruits
   • Accessory Fruits

Question 4

Definition;
1. Simple Fruit
2. Fleshy Fruit
3. Dry Fruit

Answer 4

1. Simple Fruits are fruits derived from a single ovary.
2. Fleshy Fruits are fruits which all or most of its pericarp becomes soft and fleshy at maturity
3. Dry Fruits are fruits in which its pericarp becomes dry and often hard at maturity.

Question 5

Definition;
1. Compound Fruit
2. Aggregate Fruit
3. Multiple Fruit
4. Accessory Fruit

Answer 5

1. Compound Fruits are fruits formed from numerous carpels of one flower.
2. Aggregate Fruits are fruits formed when separate carpels of one flower stay together; it’s a cluster of several ripened ovaries produced by ONE flower.
3. Multiple Fruits are fruits formed when all the fruits from a flower stay together; it is a cluster of several ripened ovaries produced by SEVERAL flowers
4. Accessory Fruits are fruits formed when one or more ripened ovaries with tissues from some other floral part; tissue in which the “true fruit” is embedded

Question 6

Examples Of;
1. Fleshy Fruits
2. Dry Fruits
3. Aggregate Fruits
4. Multiple Fruits

Answer 6

1. Fleshy Fruits: Grape, Peach, Olive, Cherry, etc
2. Dry Fruits: Pea, Bean, Lily, Milkweed, Corn, Oats, etc
3. Aggregate Fruits: Strawberry, Raspberry
4. Multiple Fruits: Mulberry, Pineapple

Question 7

1. Sepals mean..?
2. A collective name for sepals is..?
3. Fruit coat(wall) is..?
4. A simple, small, dry, one seeded fruit with a thin pericarp is.??(just like in..?)
5. Locule is..?
6. The mature ovule which contains egg and other stuff is.?
7. Placenta is.?
8. A young sporophytic plant is..?
9. An Ovule is..?
10. The female organ that produces the egg and contains ovules is..?

Answer 7

1. Sepals mean the outer modified whorl of leaves
2. Calyx
3. Fruit coat(wall) is the outer position of dry fruit.
4. Achene (just like in Strawberry)
5. Locule is the cavity share ovules are found(which is also used to define the location of microspores in the anther)
6. Seed
7. Placenta is a tissue within the ovary to which the ovules are attached.
8. Embryo
9. An Ovule is an immature seed consisting of the female gametophyte, nucellus [tissue around the gametophyte] and integuments
10. Ovary

Question 8

Pericarp means..?
It consists of..?

Answer 8

Fruit wall of fleshy fruit.
1. Ectocarp: Outermost layer
2. Mesocarp: Middle layer
3. Endocarp: Innermost layer

Question 9

The fruit wall of fleshy fruit is..?

Answer 9

Pericarp

Question 10

1. The outer modified whorl of leaves is..?
2. Calyx is..?
3. The outer position of dry fruit is..?
4. Achene is..? (just like in ..?)
5. The cavity share ovules are found..?(It is also used to ..?)
6. Seed is..?
7. A tissue within the ovary to which the ovules are attached is..?
8. Embryo is.?
9. An immature seed consisting of the female gametophyte, nucellus [tissue around the gametophyte] and integuments
10. Ovary is.?

Answer 10

1. Sepals
2. Calyx is the collective term for sepals
3. Fruit coat(wall)
4. A simple, small, dry, one seeded fruit with one pericarp (just like in Strawberry)
5. Locule(which is also used to define the location of microspores in the anther)
6. Seed is the matured ovule (which contains egg and other stuff)
7. Placenta.
8. Embryo is a young sporophytic plant.
9. An Ovule
10. Ovary is the female that produces the egg (and it contains the ovules)