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What would happen if cocklebur fruit did not have hooks​

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Answered by sahakuntal2005
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Each cocklebur fruit contains two seeds that may remain viable for many years. The prickly burs hook into your clothing and become tightly attached, like the Velcro® ... The founder effect is genetic drift that occurs when a small number of individuals, ... The founding colony does not have the genetic variability of the main ...

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Answered by ankaneha5
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Probably everyone has gotten cockleburs in their socks or clothing, especially if you enjoy walking in riverbed areas or along cultivated fields and moist pastures. Cocklebur plants (Xanthium strumarium) produce hundreds of little football-shaped burs, about one inch (2.5 cm) long and covered with stiff, hooked spines. [Another species that is less common but widespread across North America is called spiny cocklebur (X. spinosum). Spiny cocklebur is unmistakable with its stout, forked spines at the base of each leaf.] Each cocklebur fruit contains two seeds that may remain viable for many years. The prickly burs hook into your clothing and become tightly attached, like the Velcro® fasteners on shoes and day packs. Often the vicious burs form tangled clots in the fur of animals, and must be cut out of the hair. In fact, these remarkable burs have enabled the cocklebur plant to hitchhike all over the world.

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