Fruits

Question 1

What is a fruit?

Answer 1

a mature ovary with a seed and endosperm inside

Question 2

What is a fruits function?

Answer 2

to protect the seed, attract fruit-eating animals, aid in dispersal of seeds

Question 3

Where does the seed develop in an angiosperm?

Answer 3

Ovule

Question 4

Where does the fruit develop in an angiosperm?

Answer 4

Ovary

Question 5

What is an aggregate fruit?

Answer 5

a cluster of fruit from a single flower

Question 6

What are some examples of an aggregate fruit?

Answer 6

Strawberry, Raspberry, Blackberry

Question 7

What is a multiple fruit?

Answer 7

a cluster of many ripened fruits from multiple flowers crowded together in the same inflorescence

Question 8

What are some examples of Multiple fruit?

Answer 8

Pineapple, Mulberry, Osage-orange

Question 9

What is a fleshy fruit?

Answer 9

fruit with a soft pericarp at maturity

Question 10

What are different types of fleshy fruit?

Answer 10

berry, pepo, hesperidium, drupe, pome

Question 11

What are the different parts of a fruit?

Answer 11

Seed, and pericarp

Question 12

What are the different parts of a pericarp?

Answer 12

endocarp, mesocarp, and exocarp

Question 13

What is a berry?

Answer 13

fruit with a fleshy pericarp but tough skin

Question 14

What are examples of Berries?

Answer 14

Grape, tomato, Bananna, Blueberry

Question 15

What is a pepo fruit?

Answer 15

fruit with a hard thick rind (gourds)

Question 16

What are some examples of a pepo fruit?

Answer 16

watermelon, squash, cucumber

Question 17

What is a hesperidium fruit?

Answer 17

a berry with a leathery rind and parchment-like partitions between sections (citrus)

Question 18

What are some examples of hesperidium fruit?

Answer 18

Orange, lemon, lime, cumquat

Question 19

What is a drupe?

Answer 19

a fleshy fruit with a hard inner layer (endocarp or stone) surrounding the seed

Question 20

What are some examples of a drupe?

Answer 20

Peach, Cherry, Almond

Question 21

What is a pome?

Answer 21

Ovary or core surrounded by fleshy receptacle tissue (hypanthium or fleshy floral tube)

Question 22

What are examples of a Pome?

Answer 22

Apple, Pear

Question 23

What are dry fruit?

Answer 23

Fruit that have a dry pericarp at maturity

Question 24

What are the two types of dry fruit

Answer 24

dehiscent and indehiscent

Question 25

What makes a fruit dehiscent?

Answer 25

Dry fruit that splits along a seam

Question 26

What are examples of dehiscent fruit?

Answer 26

legumes and capsules

Question 27

What makes a fruit indehiscent?

Answer 27

Pericarp doesn't split open, usually only has one seed

Question 28

What are examples of indehiscent fruit?

Answer 28

achenes, samara, nut

Question 29

What is a legume?

Answer 29

a dehiscent fruit, elongated bean pod that splits along two seams

Question 30

what are examples of a legume?

Answer 30

peas, honey locust, KY coffee tree, black locust, redbud

Question 31

How do legumes produce nitrogen?

Answer 31

Rhizobia (a host bacteria in root nodules of legumes) take nitrogen out of air and convert it into usable nitrogen Rhizobia and legumes have a mutualistic symbiotic relationship

Question 32

What is the agricultural importance of Legumes?

Answer 32

Provide Nitrogen to cereal crops and grass

Question 33

What is the Ecological importance of Legumes

Answer 33

Importance source of nitrogen in many food webs

Question 34

What is the dietary importance of Legumes?

Answer 34

Nutrient dense, great source of protein, high in fiber

Question 35

What is a capsule fruit?

Answer 35

dehiscent dry fruit, with seed pods that split in various ways along several well defined seams

Question 36

What are examples of Capsule fruits?

Answer 36

Catapula, sweet gum

Question 37

What is an achene fruit?

Answer 37

an indehiscent dry fruit, small nut, very small one seeded fruit, usually produced in clusters

Question 38

Examples of Achene fruit?

Answer 38

Buttercups, Sycamore

Question 39

What is a samara fruit?

Answer 39

and indehiscent dry fruit, small, winged, one seeded, produced in clusters on tree

Question 40

What are example of samara fruit?

Answer 40

maple, ash

Question 41

What is a nut?

Answer 41

large, idehiscent, dry one seeded fruit, with a very hard pericarp, usually incased in husk or cup like involucre

Question 42

Examples of a nut?

Answer 42

acorn, beechnut, walnut