P van Rijckevorsel wrote:
Clearly, the presence of fleshy juicy edibles near the seed has developed
more than once, in several different lineages. DNA has nothing to with it.
[...]

But Dick's question was far more reasonable than you make it sound. I'm
rather surprised, as you're generally very helpful to enquirers. Seeds
_are_ connected to the parent via a placenta: I, too, assume that's how
seeds can give rise to plants not genetically identical to their
parents. Is that right? It also seems, to a non-specialist, reasonable
to make an evolutionary connection between the placenta and the fleshy
parts: is that wrong?

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Mike.