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Fruit and seeds SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Animal groups
p.22

Seeds store everything a new plant needs to start ▸ ▸ Flowers p.103
growing, including food. A fruit protects the seeds ▸ ▸ Eating
inside it. It also gives a plant a way to move its seeds pp.104–105

away to somewhere they can grow. ▸ ▸ Plants p.194
▸ ▸ Trees p.261

▸ ▸ Weather p.271

Fruit
Fruit forms from the flowers of Spreading seeds
some plants. Fruit usually tastes Plants spread, or
sweet, so people and animals disperse, their seeds
like to eat it. in different ways.

Apple seeds
sit in a core in
the middle of
the fruit.
By wind
Some plants have “winged”
seeds that help their seeds
fly away in the wind.

Apple seeds Apple Peapod
can take up to
80 days
to begin to grow.

Leaves start
to make food
for the plant.
Peas are the seeds By animal
inside a peapod. Leaves unfold Animals eat fruit, and then
and shoot poop out the seeds away
How seeds grow straightens. from the plant.
Many plants grow from seeds. With
water, the right temperature, and soil, Shoot bursts
through the soil.
a seed can begin to grow into a plant.

Bean seed Shoot begins
starts to to grow
swell. Roots grow upward,
to anchor toward Exploding pods
the plant the light. Some plants have seed pods
in the soil. that explode, flinging the
seeds into the air.
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