HORTICULTURE SCIENCE
FRUIT SCIENCE
Question
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What are the characteristics of fruits that are dispersed by animals?
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Have latex
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Edible and tasty flesh
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Light
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have wing like structure
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -bright-colored and sweet fruits attracts animals, when they eat the fruits they excreted it with their feces. The seeds grow new plants if condition in the place are favorable. Some fruits with hook, bristles and sticky surface attach to the fur, hair, feather of some animals that can be dispersed to other places.
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.
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