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Explain the difference between a carpel and a pistil?

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Explain the difference between a carpel and a pistil?..

Answer / anitha

The carpels - collectively the gynoecium - are ovule
producing megasporophylls that are folded lengthwise,
enclosing one or more ovules.

The pistil is a carpel or a whorl of fused carpels

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Explain the difference between a carpel and a pistil?..

Answer / dr. bharathi halu

Carpel is a basic unit of gynoecium i.e., pistil. A carpel has ovary, style and stigma.
So, when flower is monocarpellary then, term carpel is taken equivalent to gynoecium or pistil. Further, when more than one carpel are present, it is described as a gynoecium or pistil with monocarpellary, bicarpellary condition and so on...

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Explain the difference between a carpel and a pistil?..

Answer / chandana

carpels are nothing but pistils. if one pistil is present that is monocarpellary, if many present that is multicarpellary. carpels may be free(apocarpous) or fused(syncarpous. 

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Explain the difference between a carpel and a pistil?..

Answer / ankita dixit

carpel is the ovary containing ovules.



pistil is the collective term given to ovary,style & stigma

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