The type of fruit that develops without fertilization, such as banana, is called: MCQ with Answer and Explanation

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Fungi are heterotrophic organisms; they cannot perform photosynthesis because they lack chlorophyll and chloroplasts. They obtain nutrients through absorption after extracellular digestion (saprophytic or parasitic). The cell wall contains chitin, and most are multicellular with a filamentous body (mycelium), though yeasts are unicellular. Thus, autotrophy is not a fungal characteristic.

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Xanthophylls, oxygenated carotenoids, are responsible for the yellow color of egg yolk, autumn leaves, and corn. Beta-carotene is orange, lycopene red.

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Charles Darwin, in 'On the Origin of Species' (1859), proposed natural selection as the mechanism for evolution, based on variation, inheritance, and differential survival. Mendel discovered genetics, Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation, Lamarck proposed inheritance of acquired characters. Wallace independently arrived at natural selection.