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You get to be a little bit of a detective because we are going to look at characteristics of flowers and fruits that allow us to respectively try to determine who their pollinator or what the dispersal agent is for the flower or fruit.
and you get to be a little bit of a te- a detective because we are going to look at characteristics of flowers and fruits that allow us to, respectively, try to determine who their pollinator or what the dispersal agent is for the flower or fruit.
It has to find its pollinator quickly, and it does by emitting a powerful, musty odor.
It has to find its pollinator quickly,
I mean, this gorgeous flower in its color and its pattern is saying to the pollinator, "Come over here.
pollinator, “Come over here, I need to reproduce. I’m ready to go, I need to be fertilized.”
It's not a pollinator as much.
It's not a pollinator as much.
And flowering plants have even evolved a suite of different colors to attract specific pollinators, known as pollinator syndrome.
pollinator syndrome. Bird-pollinated flowers are mostly red, potentially to discourage
indirectly through changed pollinator behaviour, though such changes are not simple to quantify.
massive amounts of mutations, and indirectly through changed pollinator