In many cases fruits have characteristics (rewards) that attract frugivores to come and eat the fruit and subsequently disperse the seed, present in the fruit, by defecating somewhere distant from the...In many cases fruits have characteristics (rewards) that attract frugivores to come and eat the fruit and subsequently disperse the seed, present in the fruit, by defecating somewhere distant from the plant where the fruit was collected. Juniper is a typical photoautotroph, using the energy of sunlight to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and then using the carbohydrates as an energy source in cellular respiration and also as building materials to synthesize a variety of biomolecules.
