Why is most fruit round?
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Fruits are basically storage "boxes" for various types of plants.  Nature has a way of developing the most efficient items methods for any given task.  The most efficient "box that can be made to store something is a sphere (round).\n\nThis is because the ratio of volume to surface area is higher than any other shape.  In other words, with the least waste of enrgy/material to build a container, the maximum product can be stored inside.  Thus, the natural evolution toward efficient design leads many of nature's energy storage devices (fruits) to have a round or near-round shape.
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Well saltwater pearls tend to be round. Fresh water pearls are usually not. As far as better it's a personal preferance.
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decrease. Body fat around the abdomen (being apple-shaped) increases your risk of heart disease. Being pear-chaped is safer than apple-shaped
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Oh absolutely!  If you eat a lot of fruit a day or so ahead of time it's more sweet and less salty or bitter.  If you eat a lot of red meat it's known to make it really bitter.  Even what you drink affects the taste.
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They are round because that shape can withstand the most amount of pressure without exploding/collapsing. The shape is also called a pressure vessel.
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There are numerous blue fruits out there, take a look at the links below for some examples\n\nBut you're right, blue is rare compared to other colours for fruit. That's because blue doesn't show up very well against green leaves. Remember, fruits evolved bright colours so that birds would notice them and eat them, thus spreading the seeds. There is no point in evolving a colour that doesn't stand out against the foliage, you may as well just keep the fruit green.\n\nThose fruit which are blue are usually not flying bird dispersed. Rather they fall to the forest floor and are dispersed by mammals such as rats and pigs or groaund birds such as turkeys. That makes sense when you realise that tree leaves absorb red light. As a result  red objects on the forest floor look black. But tree leaves don't absorb blue light, so blue fruit lying on a carpet of brown leaves stand out much better than red fruit.\n\nIt's all about attracting animals to eat the fruit. In the canopy amongst the leaves reds and yellow stand out more. In the shade of the forest floor blues and purples work better.
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There are two possible reasons:\n1. A non-round object has higher surface area than a round object for same volume. This in turn could lead to higher reaction rates in portions that are not round (projections etc), finally leading to the element appearing round.\n2. The surface tension of water and buoyancy keep the element on the surface at the cost of local depression in the surface of water. Surface tension tends to make the depression round, which could make the element appear round.
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The are round, in short, because it takes the least enegry to do it.\n\nGravity pulls the matter that will make up the planets/sun/... together.  All the forces are pointed towards to the objects center of mass, everything is being pulled inward toward the center.  With everything trying to get as close as possible to the same center of mass, the object develops a round/sphereical shape.  This shape minimizes the amount of potential energy the matter has above the center of mass.\n\nThe reason why some objects (like the Earth for example) as not totally sphereical is because they are roating around an axis.  Since the Earth is rotating on its axis (causing our days and nights), there is a bulge around the equator as the matter located there is rotating faster [tangential speed] than the matter located at the poles.  This faster tangential speed requires more centripetal force [not to be confused with the fictional "centrifugal" force] or order to keep it rotating.  In order to lessen the required force, the matter bulges out a little bid, increasing its radius away from the axis.\nCentripetal force = m(v^2/r),\nyou can see that a larger radius (r) away from the center means a smaller centripetal force is needed.
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contrary to what most people think, oranges, its actually strawberries
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Because it is refracting light that is coming from all around. When you see a rainbow produced by a prism it looks straight but if you were able to enlarge it enough it would be round.
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A fruit has seeds on it somewhere (a strawberry has them on the surface for example), a vegetable doesnt. Which is why a tomato is acutally a fruit.
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I dont know, but I was amazed to discover (only this year) that  brazil nuts grow inside a 5lb capsule!  \nAlways look up when walking under one!
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why on earth would it matter, really? its just fruit.
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could be because fruits are picked while green and shipped\ninstead of waiting for nature...have heard some process is  used to speed up ripening, but, have seen same condition in mangoes and bananas..........
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The fruit of Tulip is a dry capsule containing numerous flat disc-shaped seeds.\nImage-http://new.oplin.org/tree/fact%20pages/tulip_tree/fruit.jpg
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The earth is round because matter attracts other matter, and when they get close they compact together to form spherical objects.\n\nPeople created computers because they kept asking why.\n\nEinstein created an atom bomb because he kept asking why.\n\npeople believe in god because they couldn't figure out why any other way.\n\nThere is music becuase people created it.\n\nPeople have brain because our genetic makeup conducts brain building and reconstruction for our entire lives.\n\nHope that answered your questions
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Is it round?  This is due to gravity.  Gravity pulls with equal strength in all directions; therefore any variations from a spherical shape will lead to gravitational forces that bring the shape back into that of a sphere.\n \nThis is without considering the rotation of the earth, however.  The rotation of the earth adds centrifugal effects, which cause the earth to bulge slightly at its equator and flatten slightly at its poles.  (This is like twirling a rock on the end of a string and then letting go--the rock flies away from the twirler.)  Because of these centrifugal effects, the distance from the center of the earth to the surface of the earth is about 0.33% shorter at the poles compared to the equator.