NEET AIPMT SOLVED PAPER SCREENING 2006

  • question_answer
                    Pineapple (annanas) fruit develops from:                                                                                            

    A)                  a unilocular polycarpillary flower             

    B)                  a multipistillate syncarpous flower

    C)                  a cluster of compactly borne flowers on a common axis

    D)                  a multilocular monocarpillary flower

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

                    The fruit of Ananas comosus (pineapple or ananas) is sorosis, (a type of multiple fruits), developing from spike, spadix or catkin. In this type, the flowers associate by their succulent petals, the axis bearing them grows and becomes fleshy or woody, thus, the whole inflorescence turns into a compact fruit.


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