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Morphology of Flowering Plants
The Fruit: Edible Parts
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Concepts tested
- Edible part of banana
- Edible parts of fruits
All Questions
2001 AIPMT 2 questions
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Which is correct pair for edible part : -Date palm: the fruit is a one-seeded berry; the fleshy pericarp is eaten. Correctly matched.
Tomato: the edible part is the fleshy pericarp and placenta, not the thalamus.
Maize: the edible part is the starchy endosperm, not the cotyledon.
Guava: a berry; the whole fruit (fleshy pericarp and thalamus) is eaten, not only the mesocarp.
So the correct pair is date palm – pericarp. -
Edible part of Banana : -Banana is a parthenocarpic berry developing from an inferior tricarpellary ovary.
The epicarp forms the peel. The edible pulp is formed by the fleshy inner layers of the pericarp.
As per the answer key, the edible part is described as the endocarp with a less developed mesocarp.
(Many textbooks describe the edible part of banana simply as the fleshy mesocarp and endocarp.)
So, as per the answer key, the edible part of banana is the endocarp and less developed mesocarp.