what makes fruit important to a plant?
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Fruit is attractive to some animals.  An animal eats the fruit and wanders off.  Later the undigestible seeds pass out of its digestive tract.  Voila; the seeds have been distributed away from the parent plant, so they have a better chance of survival (less competition for resources like light and nutrients) than they would if they were dropped off next to the parent.
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pomology (the scientific study and cultivation of fruits)
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this depends on the plant...different plants have VERY different requirements!
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Homeostasis.\n\nFor more specifics about plants look at the bottom of the second source.
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Plants are the true essence of life. Without them, no life in this world could be possible. When life appeared on earth, plants were the first to appear and then changed carbon-dioxide to oxygen and thus made life possible on earth. Even economically they provide us with lots of products. They control the climate on earth. So, with so many utilities they really are the most important thing on earth. So we must study their structures properly because that will help us sustain them on earth and in that way sustain ourselves too.
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a chloroplast contains chlorophyll which is needed for the plant to photosynthesise, or make food. the chloroplasts are only found in plants, as we do not need to make any food... we take our food from the surroundings.
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A fruit is technically something with seeds within and where the flesh of the fruit is actually food for the seeds as they mature into plants.\n\nVegetables, technically, are the stuff with leaves.\n\nStuff that grow in the ground are mostly tubers and roots. Like potatoes and yams and sweet potatoes.\n\nHowever, some fruits and tubers have been classified as vegetables for import/export purposes. Like okra (ladies finger) and eggplant and tomato.
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This question has been asked numerous times.  Theses are User estee06's words.  I put a link below.\n \n\nApples and other produce (e.g., pears, bananas, peaches, potatoes) contain an enzyme (called polyphenol oxidase or tyrosinase) that reacts with oxygen and iron-containing phenols that are also found in the apple. The oxidation reaction basically forms a sort of rust on the surface of the fruit. \n\nYou see the browning when the fruit is cut or bruised because these actions damage the cells in the fruit, allowing oxygen in the air to react with the enzyme and other chemicals
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Fruit's good as long as it's one fruit. If it's Strawberry scent, that's cool. If it's Peach Melon Lemonberry Sugar Pie, no. D:
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Some water is essential for all plant growth, though necessary amounts vary for individual species. Too little water will cause the plant to wither and die, and too much water will waterlog the roots and rot them, killing the plant.
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I think focusing on fruit is a waste of time. If an apple were forbidden that would be specified, since it is not, the fruit is not important. It is the act(disobedience) and what happened as a result of the act that is of importance here.
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Ripening is a process in fruit that causes them to become more edible. In general, fruits become sweeter, less acidic, less green, and softer as they ripen.\n\nStages of a plant's life are influenced by hormones. An important plant hormone involved with ripening is the chemical ethylene, a gas created by plants from the amino acid methionine. Ethylene causes increased levels of certain enzymes in fruit, which include:\n\n    * Amylase, which breaks down starch to produce simple sugars, and\n    * Pectin's, which breaks down pectin, a substance that keeps fruit hard.\n\nOther enzymes break down the lime pigment chlorophyll, which is replaced by blue, yellow, or red pigments.\n\nHormone levels in fruit are often connected to pollination. If too few seeds in a multifaceted fruit are formed (by fertilisation of the ovules), the flesh of the fruit may not develop in some areas, and ripening will be retarded or prevented. Fruit growers increasingly monitor seed ratios in developing and/or mature fruit and adjust pollination management accordingly.\n\nMany fruits are picked prior to full ripening because ripened fruits do not ship well. For example, bananas are picked when green and artificially ripened after shipment by gassing them with ethylene. It is also possible to speed ripening at home by placing unripe fruit in a bag with an apple, which will give off natural ethylene gas.
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According to MochaSofa, as fruit ripens it releases a natural hormone called ethylene. The paper bag traps this gas close to the fruit, thus ripening it more quickly, while still allowing some ventilation. But be careful -- your peaches and pears can go from rock hard to mush in a few days if you don't monitor them. \n\nTo get a little more technical, ethylene triggers the creation of enzymes, which cause starches and acids to break down into sugar. They also break down cell walls, softening the fruit. Fruits ripen in order to kick-start a new growing cycle, by providing their seeds with nutrients. \n\nCertain fruits, apples in particular, produce a great deal of ethylene, so it's important to store them separately from vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, and leafy greens, as these plants can be harmed by the gas. However, you can add an apple to a bag of plums, tomatoes (yes, tomatoes are a fruit), or other fruit to speed up the ripening process.
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Two favorites that are is because they have completed C4 \n  origins and become reserverist soil farms.  The dependence\n  on farm planning caused some radical change to the natural\n  world of orchards, and eatable flowerings.  Pineapples, berries,\n  limes, lemons, oranges are now under observation for these\n  characteristics that we would not want to continue to grow into\n  larger trees.  Photosynthesis in orchards is the reachable top\n  secret in pruning and shaping the sun posture of plants.  A\n   professional orchard can snip some 2 percent of the sap low\n   branch areas and triple or  six times the fruit blossom, and it\n   is usually done to increase the photosynthetic heat within\n   the barn bind, that is the area of interaction with pollens, and\n   fertilizers.  This measure is the leading knowledge of what\n  increases the size and number of blossoms.
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Fruits are basically storage "boxes" for various types of plants.  Nature has a way of developing the most efficient items methods for any given task.  The most efficient "box that can be made to store something is a sphere (round).\n\nThis is because the ratio of volume to surface area is higher than any other shape.  In other words, with the least waste of enrgy/material to build a container, the maximum product can be stored inside.  Thus, the natural evolution toward efficient design leads many of nature's energy storage devices (fruits) to have a round or near-round shape.
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The most important feature distinguishing the cells of plants from those of animals is the cell wall. In plants this wall protects the cellular contents and limits cell size. It also has important structural and physiological roles in the life of the plant, being involved in transport, absorption, and secretion.
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in botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fruit...\n\nVegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a herbaceous plant that can be eaten whole or in part. It is commonly consumed by humans as food. Vegetable is also used as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom. It comes from Latin vegetabilis (animated) and from vegetare (enliven) in reference to the process of a plant growing. It wasn't until the 15th century when the word Vegetable was first used in print. And not until the 18th century when the word was used as a noun refering directly to the category of plants.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vegetable...