Write 3 different ways in which fruits can be sorted, based on their seeds.
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Types of fruit
Drupe - has fleshy fruit and a single seed with a hard endocarp eg peaches, coconut and olives.
Berry - has many seeds eg tomatoes, peppers and cucumber but not strawberries!
Aggregate fruit - develop from one flower with many pistils eg strawberries.
Legumes - split along two sides eg beans, peas.
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Almonds and peaches etc: normally one seed per fruit, but sometimes there are two kernels in a single stone.
Apples and pears, 5-15 seeds, with five valves, each with one-three seeds.
Locquats: normally no more than four-five seeds.
Mangoes: one stone like a peach but sometimes multiple seeds inside it but normally just one.
Persimmons and Sapotes: eight valves with up to one seed in each, often less.
Strawberry/blackberry/raspberry: many seeds depending on the fruit size.
Melons and Pumpkins and Cucumbers: sometimes hundreds.
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