Chapter 160 of 2363 min read

Fruit and seed; families

Why this is asked: Not every fruit is simply "a ripened ovary": apple, pear and cashew are false fruits whose fleshy, edible part develops from the thalamus (receptacle) rather than the ovary, which is exactly the example set NEET uses to check this distinction.

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Test yourself

•In the seeds of cereals, the outer covering of the endosperm separates the embryo by a protein-rich layer called:
•Identify the part of the seed from the given figure which is destined to form the root when the seed germinates.

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