BIOMOLECULES AND ENZYMES

Detailed explanation-1: -Drupes have an outer skin covering a soft, fleshy fruit. The fruit surrounds a single, hard stone, or pit, which contains the seed. Cherries, apricots, nec-tarines, peaches, and plums are all drupes.

Detailed explanation-2: -What Are Stone Fruits? Stone fruits are also known as drupes, which, botanically speaking, means the fruit’s flesh surrounds a single, hard pit. Stone fruit pits are made of a hardened shell, or endocarp, that contains an inner seed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Exocarp (a.k.a., epicarp) refers to the outermost layer of the pericarp-which is variously called the skin, rind, peel, or husk of a fruit-that covers the mesocarp.

Detailed explanation-4: -Typical drupes include apricots, olives, loquat, peaches, plums, cherries, mangoes, pecans, and amlas (Indian gooseberries).

Detailed explanation-5: -The mesocarp (from Greek: meso-, “middle” +-carp, “fruit") is the fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of a fruit; it is found between the epicarp and the endocarp. It is usually the part of the fruit that is eaten.