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Q: What are three reasons seeds are dormant?
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How do you write a sentence with the word dormant?

The seeds are dormant but alive.


In winter these seeds are .?

dormant


What do you mean by dormancy in a seed?

Seed dormancy is a condition of plant seeds that prevents germination when the seeds are under optimal environmental conditions for germination. Living, non dormant seeds germinate when soil temperatures and moisture conditions are suited for cellular processes and division; dormant seeds do not.


Seeds can lie dormant for many years unit?

conditions are right for growth.


What are microbiotic mesobiotic and macrobiotic seeds?

Microbiotic seeds are those from which grains develop, macrobiotic seeds lead to fruit formation, while mesobiotic seeds are those that can survive in a dormant state.


How does a seed becomes dormant?

A flower seed becomes dormant over the passage of time. Flower seeds that sit over a long time and becomes dried out and shriveled, it will cease to be effective and will turn dormant.


How does a flower seed become dormant?

A flower seed becomes dormant over the passage of time. Flower seeds that sit over a long time and becomes dried out and shriveled, it will cease to be effective and will turn dormant.


What kind of seeds live through cold winters but do not sprout until spring?

Dormant


How do plants survive short growing season?

either by becoming dormant or producing seeds


Why do germinating seeds produce more carbon dioxide than dry seeds?

because dry seeds are dormant and have a very low metabolic rate (as opposed to a germinating seed)


Is a dormant seed alive or dead?

it is nonliving Seed is living as it has got capacity to grow to a plant under favourable conditions. Life is dormant in seeds. Seeds become dead under unfavourable storage conditions. What is life? In simple terms life is the ability to multiply. Seeds may need energy to keep living as we say seeds are living under favourable conditions. The energy needs may be minimal.


Dormant seeds are stimulated to sprout by the effect of?

a number of things, although temperature is normally the catalyst.