EVERYDAY SCIENCE

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: -Once pollen gets to the ovary within the flower, the ovary develops into a fruit. The ovules inside the ovary develop into seeds inside of this fruit.

Detailed explanation-3: -Endocarp: ↑ Innermost layer of the pericarp, in direct contact with the placenta (from where the seeds form). It can be either hard (like in a stone fruit like a peach), membranous, or fleshy in some fleshy fruits (like the tomato). Pericarp: ↑ The part of the fruit that surrounds the seed(s).

Detailed explanation-4: -The ovary is the basal part of the carpel, the female reproductive organ of the flower. The ovary turns into a fruit after the process of fertilization.

Detailed explanation-5: -The plant’s ovary is the structure that contains the seed(s). The ovary develops into a fruit to protect the seed(s). Some fruits have only one seed because the ovary has only one ovule. Some fruits have multiple seeds because the ovary contains multiple ovules.