Simple Fruit

Q. Which of the following statements is correct?

1. When a single fruit develops from a single ovary of a single flower, it is called a simple fruit.
2. The ovary may belong to a monocarpellary simple gynoecium or to a polycarpellary syncarpous gynoecium.
3. Flowers with polycarpellary and apocarpous gynoecium give rise to simple fruits
4. Fleshy fruits and dry fruits are types of simple fruits

Q. Read the following matches with reference to the fruit

(i) Fig - syconus

(ii) Grape - Pome

(iii) Papaya - berry

(iv) Mustard - follicle

Which of these are correct?

1. (i) and (iii)
2. (i), (ii) and (iii)
3. (iii) and (iv)
4. (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Q. A group of simple fruits developed from a single flower is

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

Q. Pineapple fruit develops from

1. Cluster of flowers borne compactly on a common axis
2. Multilocular monocarpellary flower
3. Unilocular polycarpellary flower
4. Multipistillate syncarpous flower

Q. The fruit which develops from ........................ is called as an aggregate fruit.

1. Multicarpellary apocarpous ovary
2. Multicarpellary syncarpous ovary
3. Multicarpellary superior ovary
4. Complete inflorescence

Q. Aggregate fruit develops from:

1. Multicarpellary, apocarpous ovary
2. Multicarpellary ovary
3. Multicarpellary, syncarpous ovary
4. Monocarpellary ovary

Q. Jack fruit is a multiple fruit formed from

1. Single ripened ovary
2. Inflorescence
3. Flower with many free carpels
4. Flower with many partially fused carpels

Q. Aggregate fruit is also called

1. Simple fruit
2. Etaerio fruit
3. False fruit
4. Multiple fruit

Q. Aggregate fruit develops from a single flower with

1. Fused ovaries
2. Free ovaries
3. Nonfunctional ovaries
4. Transversely arranged carpels

Q. Artabotrys odoratissima is an

1. Etaerio of achenes
2. Etaerio of follicles
3. Etaerio of drupes
4. Etaerio of berries

Q. A false fruit is the one which develops from

1. Single flower
2. Single flower having attached parts along with ovary
3. Inflorescence
4. Parts of an ovary

Q. The fruit developed from the single ovary is said to be

1. Composite type
2. Simple type
3. Aggregate type
4. None of the above

Q. Pepo is a false fruit

1. True
2. False

Q. A dry fruit formed from bicarpellary pistil with parietal placentation and dehiscing from below upwards is

1. Legume
2. Siliqua
3. Capsule
4. Follicle

Q. In asteraceae/Sunflower, the fruit is

1. Drupe
2. Cypsela
3. Berry
4. Carcerulus

Q. Multiple fruit is also called

1. Aggregate fruit
2. Composite fruit
3. An etaerio of fruits
4. Simple succulent fruit