Question

Coconut water is an example of a ________ endosperm.

Hint:

The coconut water is technically thousands of nuclei! It is one of the most common examples used to demonstrate nuclear endosperm in botany.

Answer 1

Step 1: In the development of a coconut, the primary endosperm nucleus undergoes successive nuclear divisions without immediate cell wall formation.
Step 2: This results in a large number of free nuclei suspended in fluid, known as free-nuclear endosperm.
Step 3: The surrounding white kernel (the "meat") is the cellular endosperm.