Stawberries are berries - more precisely are not actually fruits on account of the seeds being on the outside - and they're not the only one - raspberries spring instantly to mind..
2007-03-14 11:38:13
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answered by Anonymous
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What most people call seeds on the outside of the strawberry fruit are actually the true fruits. Technically, they are achenes. In an achene, the single seed is enclosed by the ovary wall. A sunflower fruit is also an achene.
A strawberry "fruit" is unusual because the red, fleshy part is the enlarged receptacle. The receptacle is the enlarged tip of the flowering stem to which the petals, sepals, stamens and carpels are attached. The strawberry is said to have an accessory fruit because much tissue other than the ovary is part of the "fruit". Apples and pineapples are also accessory fruits.
The strawberry is also termed an aggregate fruit because it is formed from many separate carpels of a single flower. Other aggregate fruits are raspberry and blackberry.
Some people mistakenly refer to strawberries as a multiple fruit. In a multiple fruit, the carpels of several flowers merge to form the fruit. Pineapple and figs are multiple fruits.
2007-03-14 11:43:08
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answered by the_lipsiot 7
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beacuse some berrys. Raspberries and strawberrys etc actually rely on birds eating them, digesting the fruit surrounding them and then pooping out the seeds later on down the road.
It's a way for the fruit to spread it's seeds further afar.
2007-03-14 11:41:34
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answered by trickyrick32 4
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Evolution.
2007-03-14 11:36:00
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answered by Dave C 7
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Perhaps natural selection
2007-03-14 11:36:33
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answered by Robin C 4
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its the way god made them and also its a way of spreading their seed futher afar. for example a bird comes and pecks at it and eats the seed later on they shat it out and hey presto the seed has been spread
dont question gods way boy
2007-03-14 16:33:00
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answered by Dan P 2
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There are so many seeds that it isn't necessary to protect them.
2007-03-14 11:37:15
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answered by thelifeaquatic 2
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they are genetically engineered
2007-03-14 11:35:42
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answered by *YAWN* 3
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