GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
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Question
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The fruit protects the seeds from animals that would eat them.
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The fruit is eaten by animals who then spread the seeds through their droppings.
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The seeds grow into seedlings within the fruit before being carried away by the animals.
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The seeds remain inside the fruit until it rots, then they can be carried away by the wind.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Animals and birds eat fruits; seeds that are not digested are excreted in their droppings some distance away. Some animals, such as squirrels, bury seed-containing fruits for later use; if the squirrel does not find its stash of fruit, and if conditions are favorable, the seeds germinate.
Detailed explanation-2: -Animals disperse seeds by carryng them on their body or by eating the fruit of a plant and disposing the seeds at some other location as they move.
Detailed explanation-3: -The fruits are mature and ripened ovaries in a plant, it contains seeds for reproduction. As a result, when an animal consumes such a fruit, its seeds are dispersed to places wherever the animal moves, thereby enabling new fruit-bearing plants to thrive there.
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: -6. Why are seeds that are dispersed by animals typically contained in fleshy, nutritious fruits? These fruits provide nutrition for the animal and also help the plant disperse its seeds.