Are any of these vegetables actually fruit?

Question

A.  Sugar beets
B.  Corn
C.  Carrots
D.  Celery
E.  All of these are vegetables, none of them are fruit.

Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
 
Gather Content
What do you already know about fruit? What other information is related to the question?

Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?

  Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
 

Answer 1

B.  Corn

Clarify Question
What is the key concept addressed by the question?
        · The key concept addressed here is the difference between vegetables and fruit.
What type of thinking is required?
            o This question is asking you to compare and contrast fruit and vegetables, making it an evaluate-level question.
 
Gather Content
What do you already know about fruit? What other information is related to the question?
        · Fruits are the mature ovaries of angiosperms.
        · Fruits usually contain seeds.

Choose Answer
Given what you now know, what information is most likely to produce the correct answer?
        · Sugar beets, carrots, and celery are all vegetative structures. They are not fruit because they are not mature ovarian structures.
        · Corn does represent a mature ovary, so it is considered to be a fruit.

  Reflect on Process
Did your problem-solving process lead you to the correct answer? If not, where did the process break down or lead you astray? How can you revise your approach to produce a more desirable result?
        · Evaluate level:
            o Answering this question correctly depended on your ability to weigh and judge, or evaluate, fruits and vegetables. If you got an incorrect answer, did you remember that fruit differs from vegetables because it is a mature ovary, or the criteria to compare fruits and vegetables includes the origin of the fruit or vegetable? Did you have trouble distinguishing fruits relative to vegetables to determine the correct answer?