BOTANY

BOTANY

PLANT REPRODUCTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Animals that eat fruits help to ____ their seeds by depositing them in new area
A
dispense
B
pollinate
C
put
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -One of the most common ways that animals disperse seeds is by eating them. When animals eat fruit, the seeds often pass through their digestive system and deposited in new areas. This process known as seed dispersal by excretion.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples include mangoes, guavas, breadfruit, carob, and several fig species. 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-3: -’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-4: -In some plants seeds are housed within a fruit (such as apples or oranges). These fruits, including the seeds, are eaten by animals who then disperse the seeds when they defecate. Some fruits can be carried by water, such as a floating coconut. Some seeds have little hooks that can stick on to an animal’s furry coat.

Detailed explanation-5: -The seed of these plants gets attached on the fur of animals with the help of these hooks and are carried away to different places, far from their parent plants. Examples of plants having seeds dispersed by animals are Dates, rambutan, sea grapes, sea holly, tamarind, raspberry, sunflower, tomatoes.

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