Why is Watermelon full of water?

Question

What makes a watermelon full of those tiny little water pockets? How does it do that?

Answer 1

The melon is in fact a storage facility for the plant. It stores water and sugar and red colouring so the seeds can grow up to be strong and healthy and hyperactive.

Many plants have a high percentage of water in their bodies. Most animals do, too.

It's the cells, little building blocks of which the plant (or animal) organs are made. They have a cell membrane and (in the case of plants) a cell wall. Their interior is essentially a soup (mostly water) of proteins and cellular structures doing their thing... usually making other cells or transporting water or food or stuff...

The cells are mostly water, and so the organs are mostly water. Hence the plant is mostly water...

What makes the watermelon so good is that the plant concentrates water and sugar there. This is why we eat it and spread the watermelon seeds all over the place (helping it propagate)

Answer 2

http://www.answers.com/topic/watermelon

This will give u a brief on watermelon. n as for y it contains so mch water is - tht may b bcoz it is a plant tht grows in desert. These days u cultivate it anywhere but originally it is a plant from desert areas. So...it may b to make the seeds survive it has so mch water in it.

U may notice that those grown in sandy areas are sweeter than the other ones....natural - original habitat makes it better...

Answer 3

It's not water...it's watermelon juice.

Answer 4

Mesocarp
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Sarcocarp (Gr. "flesh" + "fruit"), or mesocarp, is a botanical term for the succulent and fleshy middle layer of the pericarp of drupaceous fruit, between the exocarp and the endocarp; it is usually the part of the fruit that is eaten. The term
may also refer to any fruit which is fleshy throughout.

For diagrams log on to:
http://www.botanical-online.com/losfrutosangles.htm

Answer 5

it has to be full of water or we'd call them airmelons.

Answer 6

thunder_kok says because the watermelon can't afford beer

Answer 7

I think its just that girls melons are filled with water all you can do is give it a squeeze and say "h2o" lol

Answer 8

its always full of it cuz dats the way its made...ok seriously wid all da fertilizers and stuff to get it to grow bigger and faster makes it full of water........dont listen to me i have no clue

Answer 9

same reason all fruit has water in it. Water is in everything silly!!!

Answer 10

it's nature that makes it, scientist are searching for the answer to the questions. Like yours.....