Tuesday, August 24, 2010

What could cause an angiosperm to grow a long distance from the location of its parent plant?

I agree that it is due to seed dispersal - spreading the seeds away from the parent plant. Natural methods of seed dispersal include:





1. Animals eating the fruit, not being able to digest the seeds, and depositing the seeds with their wastes elsewhere.


2. Animals having stickery fruits stuck in their fur or feathers and rubbing or scratching the seeds off farther away.


3. Throwing the seeds out from the plants by means of seed pods that spring open with force when the seeds dry.


4. Wind scattering seeds in fruits that have wings or fluffy parts that catch the breeze.


5. Water scattering the seeds of aquatic and shoreline plants.





Also, people have scattered seeds far and wide as we carry the seeds of plants with us when we move to new places. We also carry some seeds unintentionally - stuck to shoes or socks, in products from other places that have been shipped over distance, and so on.What could cause an angiosperm to grow a long distance from the location of its parent plant?
Seed dispersal. Angiosperms are generally fruiting plants, so an animal vector was likely involved.

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