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HORT1001 Wk 8
Fruit Morphology
Question | Answer |
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What part of the flower becomes the fruit? | Ovary |
Based solely on the botanical deļ¬nition of a fruit, would the receptacle, petals, sepals or stamens be part of a true botanical fruit? | No |
If you cut open a green pepper, where is the locule? | The inside chamber where the ovules hang |
What is the pericarp? | Area around the carpel |
What is the mesocarp? | Middle layer |
What is the endocarp? | Inner layer |
What is the exocarp/epicarp? | Outer layer of the pericarp |
Is an accessory fruit a true fruit plus some other parts or a true fruit minus some other parts? Give an example of which parts. | True fruit plus additional parts of the flower including: receptacle, petals, and sepals |
What is a simple fruit? | Formed from a flower with 1 or more carpels fused together to appear as 1 |
What is an aggregate fruit? | Formed from 1 flower with numerous simple carpels; separate carpels visible; Raspberry |
What are multiple fruits? | Formed from a cluster of flowers in close proximity, turn into 1 unit; Pineapple |
What is a dehiscent fruit? | Fruit that has seeds that separate from dried pericarp |
What is an indehiscent fruit? | Fruit that has seeds that are retained within the dried pericarp |
Give an example of a true fruit | Berries |
Give an example of an accessory fruit | Apple; strawberry |
What is the name of the fruit tissue that is made up of sclerenchyma cells in a drupe? Hint: It is the hard pit that is inside of the fleshy part of the drupe | Endocarp |
When receptacle tissue forms part of the exterior of the fruit, it is known as: | Accessory tissue |
An aggregate fruit like a raspberry forms when _________ fuse into one structure. | Multiple ovaries (carpels) from one flower |
A fruit that is dry, does not open, and the seed remains in the fruit is: | Indehiscent |
What kind of tissue is the juicy red part of a strawberry? | Receptacle |
Pome fruit contains: | Hypanthium |
The seed of a strawberry is: | The mature ovary |