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Apologia Elem Botany

Lesson 5: Fruits

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What is the main purpose of fruits? To serve as a container that protects the seeds as they mature to help disperse, or spread, the seeds.
What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable? A fruit is anything on a plant that serves as a container for the seeds. A vegetable is any edible part of a plant that does not have seeds.
Describe what seed dispersal means? It means spreading or scattering, and is the process of getting the seeds from the parent plant to a new location.
What is human seed dispersal? It is when farmers plant seeds in the ground.
What is water seed dispersal? It is when water currents take seeds to new places.
What is animal seed dispersal? It is when animals get seeds on their fur or consume them to be carried and dropped in new locations.
What is wind seed dispersal? It is when breezes carry seeds to new places.
What is mechanical seed dispersal? It is when plants fling their seeds out into the open to be taken away.
What is botanically considered a fruit? Everything that grows from a pollinated flower and contains seeds is actually, scientifically, considered a fruit. Everything that serves as a container for the seed is a fruit. Remember, a fruit is a vessel that protects seeds as they grow to maturity.
What is botanically considered a vegetable? A vegetable is any edible part of a plant that does not have seeds.
What are fleshy fruits? Fleshy fruits are fruits that have a fleshy part between the fruit's covering and the seeds.
What do we call a fruit that its entire fruit is fleshy, except for perhaps a thin skin? A berry
Why are strawberries not really berries? It is because the seed or seeds are not on the inside of the fruit, but on the outside.
What are dry fruits? Dry fruits are fruits that have no fleshy part between the fruit's outer layer and the seed.
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