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Why Does a Plant Bother to Produce a Fruit When

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Why does a plant bother to produce a fruit when it can't get any energy from it since a fruit doesn't photosynthesize?


A) Plants get so much energy from the sun that they have an excess and it has to go somewhere, so they make fruits.
B) Fruits attract pollinators to the flowers so the plant can be fertilized by pollen.
C) Fruits get eaten and/or carried away from the parent plant, so it's a way to disperse the plant's population to new areas.
D) Fruits fall on the ground and rot and provide nutrients to the parent plant.
E) Fruits protect seeds until they can get buried underground and germinate.

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