Question

Jojoba yields wax for cosmetics from its:
A) Stem
B) Leaves
C) Seeds
D) Fruit pulp

Answer 1

Jojoba, with the botanical name Simmondsia chinensis, or also called as goat nut, deer nut, pignut, wild hazel, quinine nut, coffeeberry, and gray box Bush, is local toward the Southwestern United States. Simmondsia chinensis is the sole type of the family Simmondsiaceae, put in the order Caryophyllales. Jojoba is grown to create jojoba oil, a liquid wax ester which is extracted from its seed.

Complete answer:
Jojoba wax is scentless, dull, and could be fluid to hard mass. Its properties, predominantly texture and crystallinity, can be adjusted by quick cooling consequently influencing its cosmetic properties however they are exceptionally resistant to oxidation since methylene intruded on double bonds are absent.
The fruit capsule of the jojoba contains one to three seeds. The seeds are big, light brown colored to dark in color. Jojoba oil is extracted from the seeds by cool squeezing. A translucent, crystalline and hard wax can be set up by hydrogenation of the oil.

In comparison to vegetable oils and animal fats, jojoba oil isn't a triglyceride yet a combination of long chain esters (97–98%) of unsaturated fats and alcohols, and in this manner is all the more appropriately referred to as a wax; be that as it may, jojoba oil-wax is the term all in all utilization.
Jojoba seeds contain about half of liquid wax which is for the most part utilized in cosmetics preparation, making a defensive film over the skin that keeps in moisture. Jojoba oil-wax gives a wide range of unsaturated fats, (for example, oleic, linoleic and arachidonic), just as fatty substances which have great similarity with the regular sebum in the human skin.

Therefore, the correct answer is ‘C’, i.e. Seeds.

Note: Pharmaceutical utilizations of jojoba oil-wax have additionally been proposed. Screening of the oil uncovered that it has analgesic, antipyretic, antioxidant, cancer prevention agent, anti-bacterial and hostile to parasitic properties.