Problem:
Compare an apple (a pome type fruit) with a pod of peas (a legume fruit). These two plants differ in their allocation to the outer layer surrounding the seeds (the pericarp), which is fleshy in apples and sheathlike in pea pods.
Required:
Question 1: Which of these two plants is allocating more resources to dispersal and which is allocating more resources to provisioning seeds for germination? Explain your reasoning.
Question 2: Which plant's seed is likely to travel further? Explain.
Question 3: Which is likeliest to germinate and grow largest even before being able to photosynthesize? Explain.
Any ideas? Or better yet, pointers to places where this has already been answered?