Question

What are the different criteria to classify different types of fruits?

Answer 1

Fruit:

1. After fertilization, the ovules develop into seeds and the ovary into fruit.
2. The ovary of the flower begins to enlarge with the seeds inside it and then changes into fruit.
3. It has three layers namely-outer epicarp, middle mesocarp, and inner endocarp.

Criteria to classify different types of fruits:

1. The number of ovaries in the flower.
2. The structure of the flower from which the development of fruit takes place.
3. The number of carpels in the ovary.
4. The nature of the outer layer is called the pericarp.
5. The role of the accessory tissues in the formation of mature fruit.