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In wheat and rice:
BiologySexual Reproduction in Flowering PlantsNEET
Options:
  • A Pericarp is fused with seed coat
  • B Perisperm is fused with seed coat
  • C Seed coat and pericarp are separate
  • D Fruit is multiseeded
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The correct answer is: Pericarp is fused with seed coat
The fertilized mature ovule containing the embryo surrounded by layer of hard coat is generally called as seed. While the ovary in the flowering plant develops into a fruit after fertilization. The flowering plant family Poaceae show the fruit pattern of caryopsis which is a simple dry fruit similar to an achene but the pericarp (layers of the fruit part) is fused with the seed coat forming a grain. Rice, wheat and corn are classic examples showing such type of fruiting behaviour.

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