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Fruits and plants have to disperse so that their seeds will travel away from their 'parent', even if it isn't a great distance. If plants did not disperse and the seeds all landed nearby, there would be 'survival of the fittest' (as Charles Darwin said) and they would constantly be in competition with each other for light, water etc. Therefore many of the plants would not survive!

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