What is a seed?

Answer 1

An "agent of dispersal" is a method or mechanism that allows seed to be transported away from the parent plant to a new location where it can germinate.

Agents include: wind, water, animals and insects

Answer 2

1. A seed is the product of plant fertilization.
2. It is the "vessel" in which combined genetic material from both parent plants (in the case of cross-pollination) or single parent plant (in the case of self-pollination) is carried to the next generation.
3. A seed the fertilized embryo of a plant that is encased in a protective covering (the testa) and surrounded by a food supply (the cotyledon - monocotyledonous plants or cotyledons - dicotyledonous plants).
4. Different plants produce different volumes of seed depending on their climatic and geographical circumstances - although this is normally genetically controlled. Plants living in harsh environments will expend up to 20% of their resources in flower and seed production to ensure the continuity of their lines!
5. Seed is dispersed from the parent plant through a mechanism know as "seed dispersal"
6. Plants produce seeds to ensure the continuity of their kind and to ensure that they will live in numbers.
7. Humans are hugely dependant on seed as a source of food: rice, wheat, oats, maize/ corn etc.

A seed is a small embryo plant that develops as it grows to produce another