NEET BIOLOGY

PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

PLANT GROWTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A fruit is another name for what part of a plant?
A
the pistil
B
the stamen
C
the seed
D
the ovary
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Carpel: ↑ Reproductive organ of a flower, which includes the ovary, stigma, and style. After fertilization, the carpel becomes the fruit.

Detailed explanation-2: -ovary, in botany, enlarged basal portion of the pistil, the female organ of a flower. The ovary contains ovules, which develop into seeds upon fertilization. The ovary itself will mature into a fruit, either dry or fleshy, enclosing the seeds.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ovule is a structure in the ovary of flowers that produces seeds after fertilisation.

Detailed explanation-4: -A fruit is a mature, ripened ovary, along with the contents of the ovary. The ovary is the ovule-bearing reproductive structure in the plant flower. The ovary serves to enclose and protect the ovules, from the youngest stages of flower development until the ovules become fertilized and turn into seeds.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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