NEET 2012 · Class 12

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

The coconut water and the edible part of coconut are equivalent to (2012)

  1. (A)endosperm
  2. (B)endocarp
  3. (C)mesocarp
  4. (D)embryo

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
31 of 31

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that coconut water is free-nuclear endosperm and the white kernel is cellular endosperm, directly identifying both as endosperm, which matches the correct answer.

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