AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In South Africa, a desert melon (Cucumis humifructus) participates in a symbiotic relationship with aardvarks-the animals eat the fruit for its water content and bury their own dung, which contains the seeds, near their burrows.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seeds of apple and watermelon are usually dispersed by animals.

Detailed explanation-3: -The seed of these plants catches on the fur of animals and are carried away to different places, far from their parent plants. Dates, rambutan, sea grapes, sea holly, tamarind, raspberry, sunflower, tomatoes are a few examples of plants whose seeds are dispersed by animals and birds.

Detailed explanation-4: -’Animals gulp down the fruits without chewing the seeds, digest the fleshy pulp and defecate the seeds. ‘ This ingestion process of dispersal is known as endozoochory.

Detailed explanation-5: -Animals can disperse plant seeds in several ways, all named zoochory. Seeds can be transported on the outside of vertebrate animals (mostly mammals), a process known as epizoochory.