Question

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

• A. a-(iv), b-(iii), c-(ii), d-(i)
• B. a-(iii), b-(i), c-(ii), d-(iv)
• C. a-(i), b-(ii), c-(iii), d-(iv)
• D. a-(ii), b-(iii), c-(iv), d-(i)

Answer 1

The correct option is C a-(i), b-(ii), c-(iii), d-(iv)

Apple is actually a false fruit. The main edible part of an apple is actually juicy receptacle of a flower i.e., thalamus.

The tomato though commonly classified as a vegetable is really a fruit, a berry in fact. In this, the edible parts are pericarp (epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp) and placenta.

Banana is a berry. It develops from monocarpellary or multicarpellary syncarpous ovary. Epicarp makes the rind of the fruit. The edible portion of banana is mesocarp and endocarp.

Mango (Mangifera indica) of family Anacardiaceae is a drupe. The edible part in mango is mesocarp.