BIO 203 Lecture Notes - Botany, Coevolution, Flowering Plant
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1a) plant biology defines the word fruit as something that preserves the seeds and has a part in their distribution. It also is defined as part of the flower that has evolved or grown, specifically the ovary of flower (urry et. al 2021). On the other hand, the everyday term definition for fruit can be summarized as a plant you can eat with a harder outer layer, and it contains seeds or a pit on the inside (collins english dictionary, 2022). Even though these definitions do not seem so different, they are. 1b) when looking at the scientific definition of a fruit states that it grows from a flower and that the fruit has seeds that it protects. More specifically, fruit comes from the ovary of a flower, not any other part of the plant (urry et. al 2021). Tomatoes grow from just the ovary of a flower. It also contains seeds that the outer layer shields (eufic, 2020).
