MTTC Integrated Science (Secondary) (094) Practice Test

This question is about how a fruit can form from many flowers on one structure. When an inflorescence bears numerous flowers and each flower develops its own small fruitlet, those fruitlets can grow together into a single, larger fruit. Pineapple and fig are classic examples: in pineapple, the many flowers on the crown each become a tiny fruit, and those fruitlets fuse into one edible fruit; in fig, numerous flowers inside the structure develop into tiny fruits that collectively form the whole fig. This contrasts with a simple fruit, which comes from one flower’s ovary; an aggregate fruit, which comes from multiple carpels of one flower; and an accessory fruit, where tissue like the receptacle forms most of the edible part. So the described type of fruit is a multiple fruit.