The black dots that cover strawberries are actually fruits formed from the separate carpels of a single flower. The fleshy and tasty portion of a strawberry derives from the receptacle of a flower with many separate carpels. Therefore, a strawberry is:
a. A simple fruit with many seeds
b. Both a multiple fruit and an accessory fruit
c. Both a simple fruit and an aggregate fruit
d. Both an aggregate fruit and an accessory fruit

Question

The black dots that cover strawberries are actually fruits formed from the separate carpels of a single flower. The fleshy and tasty portion of a strawberry derives from the receptacle of a flower with many separate carpels. Therefore, a strawberry is:

a. A simple fruit with many seeds

b. Both a multiple fruit and an accessory fruit

c. Both a simple fruit and an aggregate fruit

d. Both an aggregate fruit and an accessory fruit

Accepted Answer

Hi everyone. Let's look at the next question. Which one of the following is not true about a strawberry. So let's remember that. We're looking for a false answer choice A says it is both an aggregate fruit and an accessory fruit. One aggregate fruit is one in which the fruit develops from multiple ovaries from a single flower, a single flower but multiple ovaries and a strawberry is an aggregate fruit. The black seeds and the strawberries are actually fruits that developed from multiple ovaries on a single strawberry flower. So part one, it doesn't aggregate fruit. An accessory fruit is one in which the fruit develops as well as from the ovaries. It develops from accessory parts or additional parts of the flower as well as the ovary. And in strawberries that red tasty part um develops from the receptacle of the flower that's sort of part at the bottom. So strawberry is also an accessory fruit. So both an aggregate and accessory fruit. That is true about a strawberry. So we know that cannot be our answer. Next we go to be choice be black dots that cover strawberries are actually fruits. Well and our discussion of choice a we said that yes, those black dots, the seeds are actually the fruit. So that is true and therefore not our answer choice C. Says the fleshy and tasty portion of a strawberry derived from the receptacle of a flower. That is true. As we said, that's what makes it an accessory fruit. Finally it is both a multiple fruit and an accessory fruit. But we already discussed that it is an accessory fruit. So let's think about a let's recall what a multiple fruit is. Well, multiple fruit develops from the ovaries of multiple flowers. That's the name in a cluster. And a strawberry, as we discussed, develops just from the ovaries and then the receptacle of a single flower. So a strawberry is not a multiple fruit, Therefore Choice D. Is false. And since we are looking for something that is not true about a strawberry, our answer is Choice D. Thanks for watching. See you in the next video.

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Key Concepts

Aggregate Fruit

Accessory Fruit

Carpel