Question
Biology Question on morphology of flowering plants
Which is correct pair for edible part?
A
tomato-thalamus
B
maize-cotyledons
C
guava-mesocarp
D
date palm-mesocarp.
Answer
date palm-mesocarp.
Explanation
Solution
Tomato is a berry. It is one to many seeded fleshy fruit developing usually from a multicarpellary. syncarpous and superior or inferior ovary. The pericarp of berries is differentiated into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp but the endocarp is not stony. In tomato pericarp, placenta and seeds are edible. Maize fruit is caryopsis and edible part is endosperm and embryo. Date palm fruit is berry and its mesocarp is edible. Guava fruit is berry and its pericarp and placenta is edible.