2007-10-15 03:47:25 · 7 answers · asked by shan 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Botany
Most probably the coconut came first, if we assume that a non-coconut tree by means of evolution gave a coconut and from the coconut came the coconut tree which gave more coconuts and so on.
2007-10-15 04:01:32 · answer #1 · answered by landonastar 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, my. You have gotten some rather shoddy answers... sorry about that
Just as "which came first, the chicken or the egg" this one is of the same variety. And it has to do with evolution. Plants, just as mammals and other living things are always adapting to pressures put on them by environment in which they live. We can't just say, one day there was a coconut tree, and the day before there wasn't one. A plant that was to become a modern coconut tree evolved from plants that were not producing a large coconut seed. The plant was small, the nut was small, and if you go back even farther the plant was even smaller, and the seed about non existant. But as one type of plant found that a seed worked, that seed survived, and passed on that genetic advantage to the next plant it produced. By about 8000 BCE, humans were using techniques to domesticate plants... wild grasses were crossed with other wild grasses that tended to produce larger seeds, --- the modern plant today is wheat, or rye, or oats, or barley. And the modern corn produced today, comes as well, from grasses that were cross-bred for plants that produced huge seeds... The same was done with the nut palm. And there are lots of palms that produce a nut, but not as large as a coconut... IIala nut is small, about the size of a walnut, but elephants love them. When you carve one, (and they are often carved in Africa) it is called "vegetable ivory"--- it is like ivory inside, and when the drill-bits work against it, it does indeed smell like coconut, just not hollow. Obviously, they are related.They are about an inch across So, to answer your question, neither came first... you just don't have no coconut tree and the next day or week or year or decade you suddenly (because a decade is suddenly in the scope of evolution) have a huge tree producing nuts that weigh 5 pounds, any more than one day you have a chicken producing eggs from out of nowhere....
2007-10-15 17:59:43 · answer #2 · answered by April 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither. The coconut seed came first in order to plant which grew up to be the coconut tree which then grew coconuts on it.
2007-10-15 10:50:42 · answer #3 · answered by Tiffany T 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dear,
Coconut tree.
Example. The Dated. (the fruit of the date palm)
When Adam on earth, God create Date Tree (date palm). Adam ate dates from the tree (date palm).
If there's "no" coconut tree (coconut palm), there's no coconut.
2007-10-15 10:58:13 · answer #4 · answered by AHMAD FUAD Harun 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probley a spore made the first tree and it had coconuts.
2007-10-15 10:55:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Regardless of the answer, I just want to state that Ashley G really needs to double-check her response as a coconut IS the coconut seed. Duh.
2007-10-15 10:53:13 · answer #6 · answered by Ryan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you study a bit about evolution, the answer will be obvious.
2007-10-15 10:50:35 · answer #7 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋