Question

Milky water in green coconut is
a. Liquid female gametophyte
b. Liquid endosperm
c. Liquid nucellus
d. Liquid chalaza

Answer 1

Hint: Coconut, comes under cocus Nucifera, it is the member of the palm tree family, and it is the only living genus of this family and the term coconut refers to the whole coconut palm, or fruit or bud.

Complete answer:
- Coconut water from the tender coconut is considered as the liquid nuclear endosperm.
- During the development of the nuclear type of endosperm, the primary endosperm mother cell undergoes rapid nuclear divisions.
- The divided cells lack cell wall formation.
- So the divided cell has the free nucleus in the cytoplasm.
- In the coconut after the karyokinesis the cytokinesis does not occur, so it is present as liquid only.
- As the ripening happens, the solution which is present starts gelification, so that cell boundaries start to appear.
- So all cells and nucleus are started down and settled on the endothelium lining which is formed on the integument.
- This is how coconut meat develops.
- Coconut is the world's natural product which is the beverage and it has high nutrition value and a lot of health benefits.
- It is used in the plant culture and some other cultures for micropropagation.
- It is also used as a growth promoting thing in tissue culture.
- It has some hormonal properties, like the Cytokinins like effect.
In the case of dehydration, it can be used as an oral rehydration liquid, in some remote areas it is given intravenously.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: Some nutrients and minerals and hormone-like substances are present, as they also sugars, sugar alcohols, lipids, amino acids, nitrogen compounds, and so many organic compounds are there, so it is a very nutritious and very natural product.