Manipal Medical Manipal Medical Solved Paper-2008

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    Which of the following is a wheat fruit?

    A)  Achene         

    B)  Cypsella

    C)  Caryopsis       

    D)  Endosperm

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

     Caryopsis is a fruit of family-Gramineae eg, Wheat. Caryopsis fruit is characterised by fused fruit and seed wall.    Cypsella is a fruit of family-Compositae eg, Sunflower.      Achene are simple, dry, single seeded and mdehiscent fruit and dry pericarp is free from single seed except at one point eg, Mirabilis. Endosperm is a triploid nutritive structure of angiospermic seeds,


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