1. Seeds vs Spores
A seed is an embryo of a plant encased in a protective
covering and surrounded by a food supply.

2. A spore is a haploid reproductive cell.

3. Spores
Includes mosses and ferns.
Need water for reproduction.
Must live near water
No protection from harsh conditions.
New plant must make its own food.
Must grow where it lands.
Seeds
Includes flowers
And gymnosperms
Do not need water
Can live anywhere
Protected by a seed coat
Provides a food source
for the embryo.
Can disperse in
different ways.

4. How can seeds be dispersed?
Animals – ingesting
and excreting the
seeds.

5. Animals carrying the
seeds.

6. Wind

7. Water

8. Seed plants are organized into 2 categories:
Cone-bearing plants
(Gymnosperms)
Flowering plants
(Angiosperms)
Seeds are found on
the surface of the cones,
not included in a fruit
Seeds are enclosed in
some type of a fruit
Seed bearing structures
are fruit
Seed bearing structures
are woody cones.
Seed plants do not need water to reproduce,
the transfer of sperm is by pollen.
Embryos are protected in the seeds.

10. Plumule Seed coat or Radicle testa Micropyle Cotelydon containing
Embryonic stem
Embryonic root
Seed coat or
testa
Radicle
Micropyle
Cotelydon
containing
the endosperm
Hilum
Only in plants
with fruit