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Morphology of Flowering Plants

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Ques. 1AIPMT 2012 (Prelims)

How many plants in the list given below have composite fruits that develop from an inflorescence? Walnut, poppy, radish, fig, pineapple, apple, tomato, mulberry.

  1. Four
  2. Five
  3. Two
  4. Three

Answer

(4) Three

Solution

A composite (multiple) fruit develops from a whole inflorescence.

⇒ Fig (syconus), pineapple (sorosis) and mulberry (sorosis) are composite fruits.

∵ Walnut, poppy, radish and tomato are simple fruits from a single ovary, and apple is a false fruit from a single flower (thalamus).

∴ Number of plants with composite fruits = 3

Answer: (4)

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Ques. 2AIPMT 2012 (Prelims)

The coconut water and the edible part of coconut are equivalent to

  1. endosperm
  2. endocarp
  3. mesocarp
  4. embryo
Ques. 3AIPMT 2012 (Prelims)

Vexillary aestivation is characteristic of the family

  1. Fabaceae
  2. Asteraceae
  3. Solanaceae
  4. Brassicaceae
Ques. 4AIPMT 2011 (Mains)

Whorled, simple leaves with reticulate venation are present in

  1. Calotropis
  2. neem
  3. China rose
  4. Alstonia.
Ques. 5AIPMT 2011 (Mains)

Sweet potato is homologous to

  1. potato
  2. Colocasia
  3. ginger
  4. turnip.
Ques. 6AIPMT 2011 (Mains)

Which one of the following figures represents the placentation in Dianthus?

  1. [figure]
  2. [figure]
  3. [figure]
  4. [figure]
Ques. 7AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)

Which one of the following statements is correct?

  1. In tomato, fruit is a capsule.
  2. Seeds of orchids have oil-rich endosperm.
  3. Placentation in primrose is basal.
  4. Flower of tulip is a modified shoot.
Ques. 8AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)

Flowers are zygomorphic in

  1. mustard
  2. gulmohur
  3. tomato
  4. Datura
Ques. 9AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)

The ovary is half inferior in flowers of

  1. peach
  2. cucumber
  3. cotton
  4. guava
Ques. 10AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)

A drupe develops in

  1. mango
  2. wheat
  3. pea
  4. tomato
Ques. 11AIPMT 2011 (Prelims)

The correct floral formula of chilli is

  1. [figure]
  2. [figure]
  3. [figure]
  4. [figure]

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