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Multiple fruit

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noun, plural: multiple fruits

A type of fruit that develops from the ovaries of many flowers growing in a cluster or that are fused together into a larger fruit.


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Examples of multiple fruits are pineapple and mulberry. Each section of a pineapple was an individual fruit from an individual flower, and fused to become a pineapple.


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Aggregate...multiple fruit

... of my biology flashcards anymore until I ask.... so there is aggregate fruit with is like a raspberry (single flower with multiple carpels) and then multiple fruit (multiple flowers each with one carpel (pineapple)... ...

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by naturalgoats
Tue May 01, 2012 12:44 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Aggregate...multiple fruit
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Views: 907

Theories - Origin of Life

... exact probability. (I realize that you have now started talking about multiple mutations as well ‒ I will address that below.) Sample calculation: ... chance of happening - you can call this unlikely. However, if a million fruit flies are born, then it will probably happen around once. If you then ...

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by AstraSequi
Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:30 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Theories - Origin of Life
Replies: 549
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Epistasis or Linkage?

Hi everyone, there is a multiple choice question which I cannot figure out the logic of the official answer. Thank you for your help. Pure breeding tomato plants with green leaves and smooth fruit were crossed with pure breeding tomatoes with mottled leaves and rough fruit. The ...

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by hartfan
Fri Jun 24, 2011 1:48 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Epistasis or Linkage?
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Views: 1534

Re: Evolution, Fake theory or real one? here we discuss..

In reality there are multiple mutation processes that can impact a genome but evolutionists only choose one. ... generations. That is questionable at best. I assume the useable energy is the fruit of the plant, tomato. Tomatoes are highly hybridized plants and the seeds may not ...

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by canalon
Mon May 31, 2010 10:16 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Evolution, Fake theory or real one? here we discuss..
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Views: 9026

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... to be one inheritable as a discret unit. Quantitative traits, (under multiple gene control, like height in humans) can be put under selective ... look at an example of how this works. I told you already about the fruit fly experiment, where after a number of generations, two populations ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:48 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
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