What Is A Seed?
The Plant “Family Tree” Cuticle Vascular Tissue Seeds Fruit & Flowers Green Algae Ancestor Bryophytes Ferns Gymnosperms Angiosperms The Plant “Family Tree”
What is a Seed? The embryo of a plant The pollen is the “sperm” or male gamete The egg is found within a flower if the plant is an angiosperm; or the female cone if the plant is a gymnosperm Fertilization results in an embryo or SEED!
Gymnosperms have “Naked Seeds” The male pine cone contains pollen The female pine cone is the typical woody cone; it contains the eggs or ovules
Mature ovulate cones and seeds
Angiosperms have male and female parts (think of lab last week!)
The seed of an Angiosperm is found within fruit!
In Conclusion… What is a seed? How is it important to the lifecycle of a plant? Let’s investigate…..