Examples of fruit in the following topics:
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- Fruits are generally associated with having a sweet taste; however, not all fruits are sweet.
- The term "fruit" is used for a ripened ovary.
- Fruits generally have three parts: the exocarp (the outermost skin or covering), the mesocarp (middle part of the fruit), and the endocarp (the inner part of the fruit).
- Fruits can be dry or fleshy.
- There are four main types of fruits.
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- In botany, a fertilized, fully-grown, and ripened ovary is a fruit.
- Many foods commonly-called vegetables are actually fruit.
- Mature fruit can be fleshy or dry.
- Rice, wheat, and nuts are examples of dry fruit.
- Wind carries the light dry fruit of trees and dandelions .
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- Some fruits can disperse seeds on their own, while others require assistance from wind, water, or animals.
- The fruit has a single purpose: seed dispersal.
- Similarly, willow and silver birches produce lightweight fruit that can float on water.
- Some animals, such as squirrels, bury seed-containing fruits for later use; if the squirrel does not find its stash of fruit, and if conditions are favorable, the seeds germinate.
- Summarize the ways in which fruits and seeds may be dispersed
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- Applying synthetic auxins to tomato plants in greenhouses promotes normal fruit development.
- Fruits such as seedless cucumbers can be induced to set fruit by treating unfertilized plant flowers with auxins.
- Other effects of GAs include gender expression, seedless fruit development, and the delay of senescence in leaves and fruit.
- Because GAs are produced by the seeds and because fruit development and stem elongation are under GA control, these varieties of grapes would normally produce small fruit in compact clusters.
- In grapes, application of gibberellic acid increases the size of fruit and loosens clustering.
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- Angiosperms, which evolved in the Cretaceous period, are a diverse group of plants which protect their seeds within an ovary called a fruit.
- Not all fruits develop from an ovary; such structures are "false fruits."
- Like flowers, fruit can vary tremendously in appearance, size, smell, and taste.
- Tomatoes, walnut shells and avocados are all examples of fruit.
- As with pollen and seeds, fruits also act as agents of dispersal.
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- The basidiomycota are mushroom-producing fungi with developing, club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia on the gills under its cap.
- The fungi in the Phylum Basidiomycota are easily recognizable under a light microscope by their club-shaped fruiting bodies called basidia (singular, basidium), which are the swollen terminal cell of a hypha.
- Eventually, the secondary mycelium generates a basidiocarp, which is a fruiting body that protrudes from the ground; this is what we think of as a mushroom.
- The fruiting bodies of a basidiomycete form a ring in a meadow, commonly called "fairy ring."
- As it grows, the mycelium depletes the soil of nitrogen, causing the mycelia to grow away from the center, leading to the "fairy ring" of fruiting bodies where there is adequate soil nitrogen.
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- Ethylene is associated with fruit ripening, flower wilting, and leaf fall.
- The best-known effect of the hormone, however, is the promotion of fruit ripening .
- Some people store unripe fruit, such as avocados, in a sealed paper bag to accelerate ripening; the gas released by the first fruit to mature will speed up the maturation of the remaining fruit.
- Commercial fruit growers control the timing of fruit ripening with application of the gas.
- Root growth and fruit dropping are inhibited by steroids.
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- In order to develop into mature, fruit-bearing plants, many requirements must be met and events must be coordinated.
- Finally, the fruit are grown and matured and the cycle begins all over again with the new seeds.
- For this (a) squash seedling (Cucurbita maxima) to develop into a mature plant bearing its (b) fruit, numerous nutritional requirements must be met.
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- It was only after several years of carrying out crosses with the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that Thomas Hunt Morgan provided experimental evidence to support the Chromosomal Theory of Inheritance.
- In 1910, Thomas Hunt Morgan started his work with Drosophila melanogaster, a fruit fly.
- He chose fruit flies because they can be cultured easily, are present in large numbers, have a short generation time, and have only four pair of chromosomes that can be easily identified under the microscope.
- List the reasons that fruit flies are excellent model organisms for genetic research
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- Plant viruses can cause damage to stems, leaves, and fruits and can have a major impact on the economy because of food supply disruptions.
- Other symptoms of plant viruses include malformed leaves, black streaks on the stems of the plants, altered growth of stems, leaves, or fruits, and ring spots, which are circular or linear areas of discoloration found in a leaf.