The Role of Fruit

What is fruit?
Its a ripened ovary...
A seed has 3 parts:
Exocarp= the skin or shell
Mesocarp= Fleshy part that people eat
Endocarp= The seed coat
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What is fruit?
Its a ripened ovary...
A seed has 3 parts:
Exocarp= the skin or shell
Mesocarp= Fleshy part that people eat
Endocarp= The seed coat

Slide 1 - Tekstslide

How many types of seeds can you list?

Slide 2 - Open vraag

There are 2 types of fruit; fleshy and dry. Drag the fruit you think shoud go into the 2 categories.
Fleshy
Dry
Sun flower seeds
Apples
Bluberry 
Watermelon
Pea
Bean pod

Slide 3 - Sleepvraag

Category:
Dry Fruit
Name: Achene
Description:
One seeded, hard thin shell
Example:
Sunflower Seed

Slide 4 - Tekstslide

Category:
Dry Fruit
Name: Grain
Description
:
One seeded, thin seed covering
Example: Grass seed, cereal grains

Slide 5 - Tekstslide

Category:
Dry Fruit
Name: Nut
Description
 One seeded, hard shell
Example: Walnut

Slide 6 - Tekstslide

Category:
Dry Fruit 
Name: Pod
Description:
:multiple seeds in a pod
Example: Pea

Slide 7 - Tekstslide

Category:
Dry Fruit
Name: Samara
Description
: 2 seeded, winged fruit
Example: 
Maple Tree

Slide 8 - Tekstslide

Category:
Fleshy Fruit
Name: Berry
Description
One or more flesh covered carpels
Example: Bell pepper

Slide 9 - Tekstslide

Category:
Fleshy Fruit
Name: Drupe
Description
one seeded, outer flesh covering
Example: Peach

Slide 10 - Tekstslide

Category: Fleshy Fruit
Name: Pepo
Description
tough outter covering, fleshy inside
Example: Watermelon

Slide 11 - Tekstslide

Category: Fleshy Fruit
Name: Pome
Description
multiple seeds, fleshy inside, thin skin
Example: Apple

Slide 12 - Tekstslide

What is the purpose of fruit?

Slide 13 - Open vraag

How do seeds disperse?

Slide 14 - Open vraag

Assignment
Choose a seed to research, it can be any seed you want.
Research the type of seed (dry or fleshy), seed name (pod, samara,  berry, pome, ect), a description od the seed, how the seed dispurses, and a picture of the seed.fruit .
You can choose to do a video, Google Doc, or a Google Slides
Try to find a seed that interests you... some seeds need fire in order to dispurse, cool right?!

Slide 15 - Tekstslide