PLANTS
PLANT REPRODUCTION
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Question
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Bees, attracted by brightly colored flowers, pick up and move seeds to new locations.
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Animals, attracted by scent, eat and then disperse seeds in new locations through their droppings.
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Seeds are carried away from the parent plant by wind or water.
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Seeds are dispersed during pollination.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Because plants cannot walk around and take their seeds to other places, they have developed other methods to disperse (move) their seeds. The most common methods are wind, water, animals, explosion and fire.
Detailed explanation-2: -There are five main modes of seed dispersal: gravity, wind, ballistic, water, and by animals. Some plants are serotinous and only disperse their seeds in response to an environmental stimulus.
Detailed explanation-3: -The movement of seeds away from their parent plant is called seed dispersal.
Detailed explanation-4: -They are light in weight. Some have wings that help them fly long distances. Some also have fluffy hair which enable them to be carried long distances by the slightest breeze.