Biology Today - February 2018

Types

Lomentum

It develops from mono-

carpellary, superior,

unilocular ovary. The fruit

arises just like a legume

but when ripened, it forms

single seeded mericarps,

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$UDFKLVK\SRJHD etc.

Carcerulus

Fruits develop from

bicarpellary, syncarpous,

superior ovary. Many

single seeded mericarps

are formed by splitting,

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etc.

Double samara

Fruits develop from

bicarpellary, syncarpous,

superior ovary. Pericarp

in these fruits develops in

two wings. On maturity

the fruit splits up into

winged single seeded

mericarps, H.J., $FHU.

Regma

These fruits develop from

multicarpellary pistil. On

maturity, the fruits split up

into single-seeded dehiscent

parts called cocci HJ

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Cremocarp

Bilocular, two-seeded fruits

which develop from bicarpellary

syncarpous, inferior ovary. On

maturation these divide along

with carpophore (apically grown

part of thalamus) into two

mericarps, each having one seed,

HJ, &RULDQGUXPVDWLYXP, carrot,

etc.

Lomentum of groundnut

Cremocarp of coriander Regma of castor

Carcerulus of $OWKDHD

Double samara of $FHU

Unscramble the words given in column I and match them with their explanations in column II.

Column I Column II

1. EENSNSCECE (a) Plant or animal species needed to be conserved as being in immediate
   danger of extinction.


2. ICCISLYROTNPO (b) An animal exhibiting bilateral symmetry without body cavity.


3. HANSTONELIE (c) The phase when degeneration sets in structure and functioning of the
   body.


4. GEMOFULACA (d) The branch of study providing distinct and proper names to organisms
   to standardise it all over the world.


5. DANEDNERGE (e) The promotion of flowering in plants determined by low temperature.


6. MOEAOLAETC (f ) The condition when two or more polypeptides are encoded from single
   mRNA.


7. MIBNIASL (g) Aquatic organisms that can tolerate only small variations of water salinity.


8. CITYMSSLPA (h) The process by which plants uptake water using the way through
   plasmodesmata.


9. ONVRENLAIASTI (i) A high degree of similarity between an animal and its visual
   surrounding enabling it to be disguised.


10. LACTUONEMNRE ( j ) A recessive genetic disorder in which lack of pigmentation in skin, hair
    or eyes of an organism occur.

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