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Students were on the excursion to a botanical garden. They noted following observation. Will you be able to help them in understanding those condition?
Students cut open a Papaya fruit and found all the seeds attached to the sides. Teacher inquired about the possible placentation of Papaya ovary.
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Solution
- In Papaya, seeds are attached to the sides of a fruit. Thus, parietal placentation is possible in papaya ovary.
- In parietal placentation, ovules are placed on the inner wall of unilocular ovary of multicarpellary, syncarpus gynoecium.
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