AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Botanically, a fruit is a mature ovary and its associated parts. It usually contains seeds, which have developed from the enclosed ovule after fertilization, although development without fertilization, called parthenocarpy, is known, for example, in bananas.

Detailed explanation-2: -And just when you think you knew your favorite veggie, surprise! It could actually be a fruit. Avocados, eggplants and pumpkins are technically members of the fruit family, because-you guessed it-they’re swollen ovaries of a flowering plant that have seeds.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ovules at maturity or ripened ovules are known as seeds. Ripened ovary or fertilized ovary is called fruit.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fruit is a matured ovary. Once the pollen has fertilized the egg cell contained within the ovule, the ovule develops into a seed, and the ovary of the enclosing carpel begins to enlarge and ripen, forming the fruit.

Detailed explanation-5: -Fruits are the mature or ripened reproductive structures (ovary of a flower) formed by plants that enclose seeds and help with their dispersal. Fruits generally have fleshy outer material.