BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Fruit Anatomy, Eudicots, Mitosis
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Main function: protect seed and disperse seeds. Botanical definition of fruit ovary wall seeds wait inside fruit to germinate. Pericarp (is the outside orange part) fruit. Endosperm where seeds get first bit of energy to germinate. Simple ovary can have one chamber produce one seed. Or can have divisions that have multiple seeds. Same gene different cultivars (selected different characteristics) Aggregate formed from several ovaries from single flower. Accessory yellow dotty part of the strawberry is an achene (from separate ovaries) the actual fruits red part is the receptacle which we mainly consume strawberry is both aggregate and accessory. From many ovaries from multiple flowers continuous all the way around (no opening) Simple dry dehiscent fruit split open inside capsules. Most seeds of the fruits that are fleshy, they have adapted to support the digestive tracts of animals. Artificially trick the fruit to get fertilized. What becomes the seed is the triploid endosperm and the diploid.
