Q. Which of the following is a wheat fruit ?

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Solution:

Caryopsis is a fruit of family-Gramineae eg, Wheat. Caryopsis fruit is characterised by fused fruit and seed wall. Cypsella is a fruit of family-Compositae eg, Sunflower. Achene are simple, dry, single seeded arc in dehiscent fruit and dry pericarp is free fro- single seed except at one point eg, Mirabilis. Endosperm is a triploid nutritive structure of angiospermic seeds.