How minerals and water are taken up by a plant?

Plants absorb water and minerals through roots. The roots have a minute cells xylem and phloem. The phloem cells take food materials to all parts of plants. And the xylem cells take water to all parts. The cells act as capillaries just like straws that we use to drink juices.

If you get a cutting of a fruit tree will it grow faster than from seed?

If you get a cutting of a fruit tree will it grow faster than from seed?

A cutting of a fruit tree has a shoot but it does not have the roots.
Plants that develop from the seed has a uniform development into a root and shoot system.
They have a viability to develop into a healthy plant.
Cutting of a plant has  chances to get dried up due to lake of absorption of water and minerals from the sand.  So the survival and faster growth of the plants depends upon the nature of the plant, its environment and genetic ability.

How an insect enters mango seed?

How an insect enters mango seed?

Pollination takes place through insects. To attract the insects flowers produce nectar and colorful petals. Some insect needs to provide food for its young ones and to protect from predators. So, they lays eggs inside the flowers. When the flowers develop into a fruit, the insect larva burrows deep to the seed to get nourishment form the endosperm -  seed. By eating the endosperm it gets developed to a insect.