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Question 1

Differences between pollination and fruit/seed dispersal?

Question 2

Male figs are or are not meant to be eaten by a seed disperser?

Answer 2

Should not

Question 3

Female figs are or are not meant to be eaten by a seed disperser?

Answer 3

Should

Question 4

Multivariate oder space?

Answer 4

the ones up there on the y axis with dark dots should not be eaten since they are male figs. They produce an oder that repels birds, and does not produce an oder that bats are attracted to. Light dots down there to the right should be eaten. They produce an oder that bats are attracted to.

Question 5

Birds are mostly making choices to eat a fig by ______ if they are not repelled by a bird repellent?

Answer 5

Colour

Question 6

Relationship between seed size, retention in animal’s gut, and distance dispersed from parent?

Answer 6

Low time retained, insufficient enzyme exposure, low seed germination

Middle time retained, safe passage time, high seed germination

High time retained, seed destroyed by gut enzymes, low seed germination

Question 7

Fake fruit without pulp extract were retained in G1 tract longer or shorter between real fruits or fake with pulp?

Answer 7

Longer

Question 8

Germination diminished with _________ in gut?

Answer 8

retention

Question 9

Is there a limit to how far seeds should go?

Answer 9

Yes, longer or really short is not good.

Question 10

Elaiosome?

Answer 10

Ants aren’t interested so much in the seeds but in the elaiosome.

Question 11

Are elaiosomes more nutritious than seeds?

Answer 11

More, especially in free fatty acid and amino acid content

Question 12

What is one big reason to use multivariate oder space for elaiosomes?

Answer 12

Complex chemical datasets and plot them in two dimensions?