Drupe Fruits and Pericarp Layers — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptIn mango and coconut, the fruit is known as a drupe. They develop from monocarpellary superior ovaries and are one seeded. In mango the pericarp is well differentiated into an
Which of the following statements about fruits, with a special focus on drupes, are correct? S1: Fruits are characteristic features of flowering plants, developing from a mature or ripened ovary after fertilization, or sometimes without fertilization. S2: Drupe fruits consistently develop from inferior ovaries and always contain multiple seeds. S3: In mango, the pericarp is well differentiated, featuring an outer thin epicarp, a middle fleshy edible mesocarp, and an inner stony hard endocarp. S4: The coconut fruit, categorized as a drupe, exhibits a fibrous mesocarp, which differentiates it from mango's fleshy mesocarp, but shares the characteristic stony endocarp. S5: All fruits with a stony endocarp are classified as drupes, irrespective of the nature of their mesocarp or the number of seeds they contain.
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