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Why do flowering plants have fruits that are colorful and sweet?
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∙ 12y ago
It is a mechanism for seed dispersal. Animals will see the colorful fruit and pick it to eat. The animal will spit out the seeds or pass them through the digestive tract and deposit them with the feces.
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What is DEERS?
Deer eat forbs, like flowering plants and weeds. Deer love sweet fruits like apples, crabapples and persimmons.
What is deer's food?
Deer eat forbs, like flowering plants and weeds. Deer love sweet fruits like apples, crabapples and persimmons.
Are sweet peas angiosperms?
Yes, they are flowering plants/ angiosperms
How do fruits and vegetables differ?
There are a couple of different definitions of fruit: one is botanical, the other is culinary. Culinary fruits are sweet, edible portions of plants. Botanical fruits are parts of flowering plants that derive from specific tissues of the flower. They may or may not be sweet (zucchini, for example, are botanically fruits); they may not even be edible (osage orange). Vegetable is not a botanical term, and is used generally to mean any edible portion of a plant that isn't sweet.
Why is this statement accurate Plants produce fruits to provide food for animal?
the sweet fruits attract animals who eat them and then disperse the seeds since they don't get digested.
Do raccoons eat garden plants?
Raccoons do not eat garden plants but do eat fruits and berries from a garden. They are particularly fond of sweet corn.
What type of plants do raccoons eat?
Raccoons eat fruits, berries and nuts, all from plants.
What Type of carbohydrate is sweet and found in fruits?
Fructose is a sweet carbohydrate found in fruits.
Is sweet potato fruit?
Do you mean to ask, what kind of plant is the sweet potato? Here's information. http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/sweetpotato.html The tuberous roots are one of the most nutritious vegetables, and they can be used in many recipes. http://www.fns.usda.gov/fdd/facts/hhpfacts/FS-SweetPotatoesFresh.pdf The sweet potato is a relative of the morning glory, and some varieties are used as ornamental plants. http://msucares.com/news/print/sgnews/sg02/sg021223.html
What component accounts for the usually sweet taste of fruits?
The component which usually accounts for the sweet taste of fruits is fructose.
Are all fruits sweet?
No, not all of them.
What is a ipomoea vine plant?
Ipomoea is a sweet potato plant that is grown for it colorful vines, it does not produce sweet potatoes.
