03-05-2011, 01:17 PM
(03-04-2011, 08:27 PM)Crown Wrote: What Unity and Monica were discussing is truly interesting but i wanted to add something. It is possible to eat plants without ending their proccess of growth and evolution. If you pick a fruit off a tree for an example, the tree continues to grow.
in that example, you are eating a fruit. not the plant. if, you actually plant that fruit and take care of it, interaction in between you and the tree and the future sapling would be close to complete.
the tree actually coats the seed with fruit material for the seed to be able to use that material to grow. so, eating a fruit is like stealing a sapling's insurance in most cases. however if you tend and feed the seed, supplying it with fertilizer, there would have happened an exchange.
with that, there are trees that use animals to disperse their seeds, with fruits specially designed for that.