Question

Think of ten different fruit bearing plants remember that many vegetables are also feuits of the plants discusss with your teacher parents farmer fruit growers and agricultural experts if available nearby and find out the manner of their dispersal present your data in the form of a table as shown below

Answer 1

1. Drumstick - dispersed by wind and  part of seed used- Wings of seed  

2. Coconut- dispersedby- Water and  part of seed used- Fibrous outer covering of the fruit.  

3. Mango- dispersed by -Animalsand  part of seed used- Fleshy part of fruit.  

4. Guava- dispersed by Animals and  part of seed used- Fleshy part of fruit.  

5. Rubber Fruit- dispersed by Wind -By sudden blow of Shell of the seed.  

6. Ladies Finger-Dispersed b Wind- also by sudden blow of Shell of the seed.  

7. Begger Ticks- dispersed by animals or Human- therefore fruits with tiny hooks that readly cling to the fur or cloths.  

8. Amla- dispersed by- animals and  part of seed used- fleshy part of fruit.  9. Papaya- dispersed by animals and  part of seed used- fleshy part of fruit.  

10. Arecanut - dispersed by-water and  part of seed used- fibrous outer covering of the fruit.

Answer 2

Fruits play an important role in maintaining plant species.

• Fruits help in dispersing the seeds, these seeds grow into new plants and thus maintain the species of plants.

• There are several agents that help in dispersing the seeds and they are animals, wind, birds, etc.

• Mangoes, guava, breadfruit, fig, and carob plants require the help of bats for the dispersal of seeds.

• Pisonia which is part of the 4 o'clock family plant, requires waterfowl to disperse its seeds.

• Maple, ash, elm, birch, alder, and dipterocarps require wind to disperse the seeds.