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The coconut water from tender coconut represents
  1. Endocarp
  2. Fleshy mesocarp
  3. Free nuclear proembryo
  4. Free nuclear endosperm

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Fleshy mesocarp
B
Free nuclear proembryo
C
Free nuclear endosperm
D
Endocarp
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Coconut water is the endosperm part of the coconut plant. Endosperm is the most common nutritive tissue for the development of embryos in Angiosperms and develops as post-fertilization structure from the primary endosperm nucleus. The coconut endosperm is a nuclear type. In very young coconut fruit the endosperm is found as a clear fluid in which float numerous nuclei of various sizes. This fluid is compactly filling the embryo sac in which the embryo is developing.

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