• Question: How did the fruits that contain seeds grow in the first place

    Asked by 897curm28 to Jacque on 12 Mar 2018.
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      Jacque Cilliers answered on 12 Mar 2018:


      Seeds are inside fruit because they need a way to attract animals to eat them. This is a cycle. Fruit attract monkeys, monkeys eat the fruit and the seeds, they travel far from the original tree and then poop. The poop contains the seeds and the seeds have their very own pile of fertiliser. The seeds germinate and grow into plants which have more fruit… and so on. The reason the plant wants its seeds eaten is so that the seeds are transported far from the mother plant… it increases their chance of survival.

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