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Fruit
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Concepts tested here
- Aggregate fruit
- Composite fruits
- Edible parts of fruits
All Questions
2014 AIPMT 2 questions
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Placenta and pericarp are both edible portions in:Tomato is a berry in which the fleshy pericarp and the placenta are both eaten.
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An aggregate fruit is one which develops from:An aggregate fruit develops from a single flower with a multicarpellary, apocarpous (free carpels) gynoecium; each carpel forms a fruitlet.
2012 AIPMT-PRE 1 question
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How many plants in the list given below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence? Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry.A composite (multiple) fruit develops from a complete inflorescence.
Fig (syconus), pineapple (sorosis) and mulberry (sorosis) are composite fruits.
Walnut, poppy, radish, apple and tomato are simple fruits, each developing from a single flower.
So three plants in the list have composite fruits.