Different Parts of a Fruit

Q.

Which is the edible part of the banana?

Q.

The edible part of the fruit apple is

1. Thalamus

2. Pericarp

3. Endocarp

4. Involucre

Q. Who confirmed the release of a volatile substance from ripening oranges that hastened the ripening of stored unripened bananas?

1. E. Kurosawa
2. Skoog and Miller
3. Cousins
4. F. W. Went

Q.

Custard Apple is an aggregate fruit of

1. Berries

2. Drupes

3. Achenes

4. Hypanthodium

Q.

Is coconut a drupe?

Q. What is a false fruit? Cite an example.

Q. Which of the following is an example of false fruit?

1. Coconut
2. Mango
3. Papaya
4. Apple

Q. The outermost layer of the pericarp is called

1. Epicarp
2. Exocarp
3. Mesocarp
4. Endocarp

Q.

A berry fruit is mostly ______ .

Q.

What fruits make other fruits ripen faster?

Q. What are parthenocarpic fruits? Give one example of natural parthenocarpic fruit.

Q.

Match the following (with respect to edible part):

(a) Apple (i) Thalamus

(b) Tomato (ii) Pericarp and placenta

(c) Banana (iii)Mesocarp and endocarp

(d) Mango (iv) Mesocarp

1. a-(iv), b-(iii), c-(ii), d-(i)
2. a-(iii), b-(i), c-(ii), d-(iv)
3. a-(i), b-(ii), c-(iii), d-(iv)
4. a-(ii), b-(iii), c-(iv), d-(i)

Q. In coconut, which layer of fruit is fibrous?

1. Epicarp
2. Mesocarp
3. Endocarp
4. None of the above

Q. An example of berry is?

1. Mango
2. Tomato
3. Coconut
4. Pineapple

Q. The edible part in the fruit of lotus is

1. Achenes
2. Fleshy thalamus
3. Endosperm
4. Cotyledons

Q. A dry single-seeded fruit formed from a double ovary of which one develops into a seed is

1. Berry
2. Cremocarp
3. Caryopsis
4. Cypsela

Q. Match the lists.

	I	II
(a)	Aggregate fruitlets of berries appearing as a single fruit	(i) Rubus
(b)	Achenes of inner margin of receptacle	(ii) Artabotrys
(c)	Etaerio of drupes	(iii) Ficus
(d)	Etaerio of follicles	(iv) Magnolia
		(v) Annona

1. a-(v), b-(iii), c-(i), d-(iv)
2. a-(ii), b-(i), c-(v), d-(iv)
3. a-(ii), b-(iv), c-(iii), d-(v)
4. a-(iv), b-(iii), c-(i), d-(ii).

Q. Mesocarp, endosperm and thalamus are edible, respectively in:

1. Mango, coconut and apple
2. Apple, mango and coconut
3. Coconut, mango and apple
4. Coconut, apple and mango

Q. Label the parts of the true fruit.

1. Mesocarp
2. Endocarp
3. Seed coat
4. Epicarp

Q. Dry schizocarpic dehiscent fruit formed from tricarpellary, syncarpous, superior ovary with axile placentation is

1. Regma
2. Septifragal capsule
3. Septicidal capsule
4. Siliqua

Q. A fruit that has fleshy mesocarp and stony endocarp is

1. Pome
2. Berry
3. Pepo
4. Drupe

Q. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer.

List-I(Fruits)	List-II(Edible parts)
a. Cashewnut	$1$. Thalamus
b. Coconut	$2$. Cotyledons
c. Apple	$3$. Aril
d. Litchi	$4$ Endosperm

1. A-$2$, B-$4$, C-$1$ D-$3$
2. A-$1$, B-$3$, C-$4$, D-$2$
3. A-$2$, B-$1$, C-$3$, D-$4$
4. A-$3$, B-$4$, C-$1$, D-$2$

Q. Label the parts from A-D.

1. A - Epicarp, B - Mesocarp, C - Seed, D - Endocarp
2. A - Epicarp, B - Mesocarp, C - Endocarp, D - Seed
3. A - Pericarp, B - Mesocarp, C - Endocarp, D - Seed
4. A - Pericarp, B - Mesocarp, C - Seed, D - Endocarp

Q.

Juicy hair-like structures observed in lemon fruit develop from

1. Exocarp

2. Mesocarp

3. Endocarp

4. Both (b) and (c)

Q. In the ripe drupe of mango, the edible part is

1. Mesocarp
2. Endocarp
3. Seed
4. Epicarp

Q. None of the pericarp layers is edible in case of

1. Banana
2. Almond
3. Grape
4. Zizyphus

Q. In fleshy fruits, the pericarp is__________.

1. absent
2. undifferentiated
3. differentiated into three layers
4. differentiated into five layers

Q.

Match the following (with respect to edible part):

(a) Apple (i) Thalamus

(b) Tomato (ii) Pericarp and placenta

(c) Banana (iii)Mesocarp and endocarp

(d) Mango (iv) Mesocarp

1. a-(iv), b-(iii), c-(ii), d-(i)
2. a-(iii), b-(i), c-(ii), d-(iv)
3. a-(i), b-(ii), c-(iii), d-(iv)
4. a-(ii), b-(iii), c-(iv), d-(i)

Q.

Match the following

$\begin{array}{cc}\text{Fruit}& \text{Edible part}\\ \text{(a) Apple}& \text{(i) Mesocarp}\\ \text{(b) Tomato}& \text{(ii) Mesocarp, endocarp, seeds}\\ \text{(c) Banana}& \text{(iii) Epicarp, Mesocarp and endocarp}\\ \text{(d) Mango}& \text{(iv) Thalamus}\end{array}$

1. (a) – (iv), (b) – (iii), (c) – (ii), (d) – (i)

2. (a) – (iv), (b) – (iii), (c) – (ii), (d) – (iv)

3. (a) – (iii), (b) – (i), (c) – (ii), (d) – (iv)

4. (a) – (ii), (b) – (iii), (c) – (iv), (d) – (i)

Q.

Dry indehiscent single seeded fruit formed from bicarpellary syncarpous inferior ovary is

1. cypsella

2. berry

3. caryopsis

4. cremocarp