Amazing Fact: Pomegranate Can Serve As A Backup Ovary

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Amazing Fact: Pomegranate Can Serve As A Backup Ovary

Fruiting plants and humans both have reproductive organs called ovaries, and in the case of pomegranate fruit, the anatomical resemblance is absolutely striking:

         

Because our primary relationship to fruit is as a consumer, we are usually too immersed in the joyful act of eating fruit to take notice that it is by definition "the ripened ovary - together with the seeds - from one or more flowers of a plant."

The differences between species are obvious, of course: fruit-ovaries disperse their seeds by being eaten, and then excreted by animals, whereas human-ovaries, remaining intact within the body, disperse their "seeds" (eggs) by way of the fallopian tubes.

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