The coconut water and the edible part of coconut are equivalent to

The coconut water and the edible part of coconut are equivalent to
  1. endosperm
  2. endocarp
  3. mesocarp
  4. embryo

Solution

The coconut water obtained from the tender coconut is nothing but free nuclear endosperm (made up of thousands of nuclei) and the surrounding white kernel is the cellular endosperm.

Asked in: NEET 2012 (Screening)

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