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Mystery #3Tier 2biology / plants

Where does fruit come from, and why do plants make it?

An apple is sweet, juicy and full of seeds, and it grows right where a flower used to be on the tree. So where does a fruit actually come from, and why would a plant put so much effort into making something delicious?

A tomato sliced in half, showing the seeds inside its juicy chambers, a true fruit grown from the flower's ovary.
Photo: Lee Ann Ratledge, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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