Botany: Understanding Fruit Structure and Seed Dispersal

To disseminate their seeds.

Using the movements of humans and other animals in a symbiotic relationship.

Some have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.

<p>They have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Many structures that are not commonly called 'fruits' in everyday language, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>In botany, a fruit is a ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An example is the tomato.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main difference is that a fruit is a type of plant produce with seeds, while a nut is a type of fruit and not a seed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The outer layer, often edible, is called the pericarp.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fruit results from the fertilizing and maturing of one or more flowers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is called beaked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The term is double fertilization.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The edible produce of rhubarb is actually the leaf stalk or petiole of the plant.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An example is corn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The female gametophyte is called a megagametophyte.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The main purpose of the pollen tube is to transfer sperm from the pollen to the megagametophyte.</p> Signup and view all the answers