Question

A single flower with multiple ovaries produces
A)Simple fruit
B)Aggregate fruit
C)Composite fruit
D)False fruit

Answer 1

Hint: It is a fruit developed from the combination of several ovaries that were separated in a single flower. The female reproductive part of a flower is known as the ovary that can be present one or multiple in number.

Complete answer:
-According to the arrangement form fruits are classified into four types that are - simple, aggregate, multiple, and accessory fruits.
-A fruit produced from the merger of many ovaries that were distinct in a single flower is known as an aggregate fruit.
-It is a fruit that produces from the apocarpous ovary of a flower. Multiple carpels of a flower are not joined together and form the individual fruits on the same receptacle.
-Flowers with multiple ovaries do not always grow into aggregate fruits because the ovaries do not join together tightly to make a large fruit.
-It also known as accessory fruits because, except the ovary, other parts of the flower become juicy and form part of the fruit.
-Raspberry, blackberry, strawberry are examples of aggregate fruits. In this Strawberry, the small dark color dots are the ovaries and the juicy part grows from the base of the flower.

Additional Information: Simple fruits - it is produced from a single ovary having one or more carpels. The additional modified accessory floral structure that is perianth may or may not be present. It may be fleshy or dry. Fleshy fruits are edibles include- berry, drupe, pome, pepo, and hesperidium.
Composite fruits- it is a group of fruitlets produced from a different flower of an inflorescence. Sorosis and Syconus are its two types.
False fruits - it is developed from the ovary that is ripened along with some other parts of the flower (base or receptacle, the perianth, etc). Examples of false fruits are apples, bananas, cashews, strawberries, etc.
So, the correct answer is, “Aggregate fruit”.

Note: -Collection of small fruits are known as aggregate fruits and a number of small fruit known as fruitlets is contained by them.
-Estario is a fruitlets derived from a single flower.
-A fruit usually developed from the apocarpous ovary of a flower. In this many carpels are not joined together. Therefore, forms the individual fruitlets on the sem receptacle.