Modifications of Fruits or Seeds That Do NOT Adapt Them

question 8

Multiple Choice

Modifications of fruits or seeds that do NOT adapt them for dispersal by either wind or water include

• A) tiny seeds that are light in weight.
• B) parachutelike plumes.
• C) an inflated sac around the seed.
• D) pockets of air beneath the surface of the seed coat.
• E) a mechanism that squirts seeds from one end of a melonlike fruit.

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