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protecting seeds
help attract animals for dispersal |
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| Two ways that seeds are protected from destruction during digestion? |
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produce tiny seeds with seed coat that survives digestion
make seeds to big to be eaten or crushed |
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| Three features of seeds that make them good sources of food for humans. |
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| high in fats, starches, and proteins |
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| mature ripened ovary of a flower and its contents |
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derived from leaf like structure where ovules were born
ovules folded |
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| made form fusion of two or more leafy structures |
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layers of ovary wall
surrounds seed |
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ripened ovule
embryonic plant |
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| pericarp doesn't open at maturity |
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| pericarp opens to release seeds |
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part of all of pericarp and tissues remain fleshy at maturity
strawberry |
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| fruit where flesh is not from ovary |
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1 seeded
pericarp hard or woody
seed partially attached to pericarp
fused to ovary wall
chestnu |
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1 several seeded
mesocarp fleshy
endocarp soft
grape |
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1-2 seeded
mesocarp flshey
endocarp bony
peach or plum |
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several seeded
exo and mesocarp leathery
endocarp of juice sacs
orange |
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many seeded with a hard rind from pericarp
squash |
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several seeded with a hard rind from receptacle tissue
apple/pear |
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fruits formed for several independent capes within the single flower
raspberry |
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fruits formed from the fusion on fruits from spirit flowers
pinapple |
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fruits from no fertilization
seeds aren't present
banana |
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short square cells with thick cell walls
in pears |
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| How are maraschino cherries made? |
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made from sweet cherries (royal anne)
bleached
deseeded
soaked in sugar with red food dye and flavouring |
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| have pits that separate easily |
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| What plant family does the cranberry belong to? |
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| Most wide cultivated species of grape? |
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| What water soluble phenolic compound makes fresh olives extremely bitter? |
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| What was the original common name of the fruit now known as kiwi? |
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| Why are peanuts and almonds not considered botanically to be true nuts? |
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| they are drupes with a leathery husk that is removed to expose hard endocarp |
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| Which species is more commercially important Persian walnut or the back walnut? |
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| persian because the black one has too strong of a taste |
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| What organism caused the chestnut blight that killed or infected most American chestnut trees between 1904-1950? |
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| fungus cryphonectria parasitica |
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| hat cyanide-producing compound is found in almond seeds, giving them their characteristic flavour and smell? |
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