BOTANY
PLANT REPRODUCTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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An animal could eat the fruit and spread the seeds
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Seeds could float away in the wind
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The seed could get stuck in an animals fur and be carried to a new place.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. These modes are typically inferred based on adaptations, such as wings or fleshy fruit.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. Dandelion seeds float away in the wind.
Detailed explanation-3: -The methods of seed dispersal are: Wind. Ballistic. Water. And even animals.
Detailed explanation-4: -Dispersal of seeds means to scatter seeds over a wide area. The seeds of some of the plants such (as seeds) but the seeds of other plants disperse in the form of fruits (because fruits contain seeds inside them).