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What is a simple fruit?
A simple fruit is one that is derived from a single carpel or several fused carpels.
Example: berries, drupes, pomes
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What is an aggregate?
An aggregate is a fruit that is derived from a single flower with many pistils.
Example: raspberries, black berries, strawberries
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What is a multiple fruit?
A multiple fruit is derived from many flowers.
Example: pineapple, mulberries, osage orange
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Describe a berry..
- - has soft flesh throughout
- -tomato, peppers, grapes
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Describe a drupe...
- - inner part is hard or stony pit
- - peachs, cherries, plums
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Describe a pome...
- - fleshy part comes from floral parts and inner core is textured
- - apple, pear
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From where does the fruit develop from?
Ovaries
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Which flowering parts develop into the seed coat?
Product of ripened ovule in angiosperms and gymnosperms.
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Which flower parts develop into the embryo?
The zygote
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Which part of a flower produces the endosperm?
Endosperm is the tissues produced inside the seeds of angiosperms. Endosperm surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch.
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Sometimes if the egg does not become fertilied, the ovary can be forced to develop into a fruit by plant hormones. What is the result?
Seedless Fruits
Example: grapes, oranges, bananas, watermelons, pineapple
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What is apomixis
Seeds with no fertilization
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