NEET 2017 · Class 12

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

The morphological nature of the edible part of coconut is (NEET 2017)

  1. (A)cotyledon
  2. (B)endosperm
  3. (C)pericarp
  4. (D)perisperm

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

The coconut water from tender coconut that you are familiar with, is nothing but free-nuclear endosperm (made up of thousands of nuclei) and the surrounding white kernel is the cellular endosperm.

Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Section
1.4 POST-FERTILISATION : STRUCTURES AND EVENTS
Page
18
Words matched
67 of 67

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that both coconut water and the white kernel are forms of endosperm, directly identifying the edible part's morphological nature.

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