Statement 1: Ripening of fruits is accompanied with a lot of anabolic and catabolic reactions. Statement 2: Certain fleshy roots, tubers and bulbs have low metabolic activity and are dormant until there are environmentally favorable conditions for germination and growth.

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Statement 1: Ripening of fruits is accompanied with a lot of anabolic and catabolic reactions.

Statement 2: Certain fleshy roots, tubers and bulbs have low metabolic activity and are dormant until there are environmentally favorable conditions for germination and growth.

(a) True, False

(b) True, True

(c) False, False

(d) False, True

I got this question by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Principles of Fresh Food Storage-1 topic in chapter Food Preservation, Principles of Fresh Food Storage, Principles of Refrigerated Gas Storage of Foods and Principles of Food Freezing of Food Engineering

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