Fruits and Seeds - Seeds & Seed Dispersal

Fruits and Seeds
By Shirley Burchill and Paul Billiet
The Open Door Web Site

Since plants do not move from place to place, they have developed ways to make certain that their seeds are taken well away from them; this is called seed dispersal. Seed dispersal is important because if the seeds were to develop close to the parent plant, the young plants would not receive enough sunlight to grow.

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