BI266- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)
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Fruit - matured ovary and its accessory parts. Fruits develop from flower ovaries and accordingly are found exclusively in flowering plants. May be derived from a one or more ovaries. Fleshy fruits - mesocarp at least partly fleshy at maturity. Simple fleshy fruits develop from flower with single pistil. Drupe - simple fleshy fruit with single seed enclosed by hard, stony endocarp (pit) Berry - from a compound ovary, with more than one seed, and with fleshy pericarp. True berry - with thin skin and relatively soft pericarp. Pome - flesh comes from enlarged floral tube or receptacle that grows up around ovary. Apples, pears - core and a little of adjacent tissue is from ovary; remainder is from floral tube and receptacle. Indehiscent fruits do not split at maturity. Siliques and silicles - split along two sides, but seeds on central partition, which is exposed when two halves separate.
