Development of Seeds & Fruits in Angiosperms

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Across
  1. 2. Developed from the ovary wall.
  2. 5. The tissue that surrounds and nourishes the embryo in the angiosperm seed.
  3. 8. Form seed leaves.
  4. 13. The rudimentary shoot of a plant that supports the cotyledons in the seed.
  5. 15. Consists of the apical meristem and the first true leaves of the young plant.
  6. 18. Fruits developed from a cluster of flowers called an inflorescence.
  7. 19. What does the Greek words karpos means?
  8. 20. Most commercial seedless grapes are sprayed with what hormone to increase size of fruit?
  9. 21. Fertilisation process followed by embryo (seed) abortion.
  10. 28. Asexual formation of seeds from the maternal tissues of the ovule causes what situation?
  11. 30. Asexual formation of seeds from the maternal tissues of the ovule.
Down
  1. 1. Absorbs nutrients from the endosperm during germination.
  2. 3. The region of an embryo or seedling stem above the cotyledon.
  3. 4. _____ parthenogenesis - Development of megaspore mother cell (2n) into embryo (2n) without fertilisation.
  4. 6. A small pore on the seed coat.
  5. 7. Hormone that treats young, unpollinated ovaries in certain cultivars to produce parthenocarpic fruit.
  6. 9. __________ parthenocarpy is process where pollination is required but no fertilisation takes place?
  7. 10. False fruit or pseudo-fruit that is derived from the floral parts other than ovary is also known as ________ fruit.
  8. 11. _________ parthenocarpy produces fruits without the stimulus of pollination.
  9. 12. The portion of the embryo or seedling between the root and cotyledons.
  10. 14. A pointed sheath that protects the emerging shoot in monocotyledons.
  11. 16. Fruits that developed from more than one carpel of the same flower.
  12. 17. Fruits developed from ripened ovary after fertilisation is known as _____ fruit.
  13. 22. Development of fruit without fertilisation.
  14. 23. _____ parthenogenesis - Development of an egg cell (n) into embryo (n) without fertilisation.
  15. 24. The scar left when the seed is detached from the funiculus.
  16. 25. Fruits that developed from a single carpel or fused carpel of a single ovary.
  17. 26. What does the Greek words parthénos means?
  18. 27. Seed stalk.
  19. 29. The seed coat.