3.9 - THE FRUIT AND THE SEED

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Across
  1. 2. A seed is made up of a ........ and an ..........
  2. 3. If a fruit is formed without fertilisation of the ovary, it is called a ........... fruit.
  3. 6. The embryo is made up of a ......., an embryonal axis and one (as in wheat, maize) or two cotyledons (as in gram and pea).
  4. 7. ........is one such example for Parthenocarpic fruit.
  5. 10. In mango the pericarp is well differentiated into an outer thin epicarp, a middle fleshy edible mesocarp and an inner ......... endocarp.
  6. 11. It is a mature or ripened ovary, developed after .............
  7. 13. When pericarp is thick and fleshy, it is differentiated into the outer ........, the middle .......... and the inner .........
Down
  1. 1. Drupe develop from monocarpellary ....... ovaries and are one seeded.
  2. 4. Generally, the fruit consists of a wall or ....... and ...........
  3. 5. In coconut which is also a drupe, the mesocarp is .........
  4. 8. The pericarp may be ...... or .........
  5. 9. The fruit is a characteristic feature of the .......... plants.
  6. 12. In mango and coconut, the fruit is known as a ..........
  7. 14. The .........after fertilisation, develop into seeds.