BIOL 2004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gynoecium, Fruit Anatomy, Seed

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Some lowers will use uv-absorbing compounds to guide insects to the nectar. Some lowers will look like dead animals to atract lies (they will also smell like dead animals) Funcion: the distribute the seeds to a new area. The ovary wall is called the pericarp and is made of three things: exocarp: the outer layer or skin, mesocarp: the middle layer or the leshy part, endocarp: the innter layer or the part covering the seed. Carpel is made of sigma, style and ovary. Compound pisil is two or more fused carpels. Three general types of fruit: simple: from one carpel or many fused carpels (ex. tomato and oranges, aggregate: one lower with many separate carpels (ex. blackberries, muliple: more than one lower in a single inlorescence (ex. pineapple) Indehiscent: the seeds remain in the fruit at maturity. Berry: pericarp becomes bright and lashy to atract pollinators. Pepo: pericarp becomes thick and solid with a leshy inside.

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