NEET NEET SOLVED PAPER 2013

Among bitter gourd, mustard, brinjal, pumpkin, China rose, lupin, cucumber, sunnhemp, gram, guava, bean, chilli, plum, Petunia, tomato, rose, Withania, potato, onion, aloe and tulip, how many plants have hypogynous flower?

A) Six

B) Ten

C) Fifteen

D) Eighteen

Correct Answer: C

Solution :

	Flowers
Hypogynous	Perigynous	Epigynous
Gynoecium present above all other floral parts Ovary is superior	Gynoecium present in the centre. Other part almost at same level. Ovary half inferior, e.g., Plum rose	Ovary enclosed by thalamus and gets fused with it Other parts above ovary Ovary inferior, e.g., Guava, cucumber

Plum, rose are perigynous and guava, cucumber are epigenous. So, total remaining plants are hypogenous.