Inflorescence and Types of Racemose Inflorescence

Inflorescence

The arrangement of flowers on the floral axis is termed as inflorescence. Inflorescence is the arrangement of flowers on the stem or twig of a plant.

Types of inflorescence are as follows: Racemose or Indefinite type, Cymose or Definite type, Special type and mixed type.

Racemose or Indefinite Inflorescence:

In this type of inflorescence the main axis continues to grow and does not terminate in a flower and flowers are borne laterally in an acrope…

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Structure of Seed

• The whole plant exists in a seed. Plant is the main base of whole living world. So it can be say that seed is the most important structure. In angiosperm, after the fertilization, egg cell changed into embryo, ovary changed into fruit and ovule change into seed.
• Morphologically, ripened ovule is known as seed. In other words, seed is a mature, integumented megasporangium.
• All the structures which are present inside the seed coat are collectively termed as Kern…

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