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AMU Medical AMU Solved Paper-1996

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    If a fruit is developed from bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior ovary with parietal placentation and unilocular when young but becoming bilocular with age and also pod like in appearance is termed as

    A)  lomentum        

    B)  silicula

    C)  siliqua           

    D)  cypsella.

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    : Siliqua is the fruit develops from bicarpellary, syncarpus, superior ovary. Ovary has parietal placentation. In the beginning the ovary is unilocular but later becomes bilocular due to the development of false septum. Lomentum is the fruit develops from mono- carpel lary superior ovary. Actually, these fruits are modifications of legumes. Silicula resembles the siliqua but its breadth iand length are equal. It is wide and flat. Cypsella develops from bicarpellary, syncarpous, inferior ovary. These are unilocular and one seeded.


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