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How is seed adapted for long survival?

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The seed is incased in a seed coat that is very protective and the embryo within the seed is dormant, meaning that the seed is able to survive long periods without food or water.

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Non-vascular plants have adapted for survival by all of these methods EXCEPT?

Non-vascular plants have adapted for survival in a lot of ways. These plants live in water for example to hold them sturdy.


Can germination start if the seed was drowned?

Soaking a seed too long can kill the embryo and prevent it from germinating. The seed can also rot if it is too wet for too long.


The definition for the word survival?

a state of surviving; remaining alivea natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environmentsomething that survives


What is survival to the fittest?

Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce.


Why must there be variations in the population in order for natural selection to occur?

Natural selection works via a simple mechanism: certain organisms, though mutation, will be better-equipped for survival than others of their species. Over time, the better-adapted organisms will have a higher survival rate and, through interbreeding and simply outliving the competition, will eventually replace them. If there was no variation (mutation) in the population, there would be no better-adapted individuals, and no change. This has been the case with some species. Alligators, for example, have been around virtually unchanged (except for size) for nearly 100 million years. They are well-adapted adapted for survival in their environment as it is, and thus there is really no need for improvements that would lead to major evolutionary change.

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How have seed plants become adapted to the enviornment?

Seed plants became adapted to the environment with our great climate. :)


Non-vascular plants have adapted for survival by all of these methods EXCEPT?

Non-vascular plants have adapted for survival in a lot of ways. These plants live in water for example to hold them sturdy.


How has the anaconda adapted to its environment for survival?

The anaconda has adapted with it great size and force


How is the fauna adapted for survival in freshwater?

Hypotonic conditions .


Why can seeds from cone trees stay on the soil for a long time?

Any seed has a hard coat thet protects the seed until the conditions for germination are suitable for survival of the seedling.


How is the coconut seed adapted to seawater dispersion?

possibly


What is the main function of a seed?

for survival and reproduction of plants.


Which seed grows faster dry seed or fresh seed?

Dry seed because when the fresh seed has just came out of a plant/dog then the seed is'ent adapted to the season but the when you put the dry seed in then it will grow


Sense organs are adapted for?

Most sense organs are adapted for survival. While some animals are blind, like bats, they use their sense of hearing as survival. For what an animal lacks, they adapt to another sense organ to help in survival and reproduction which helps continue the species.


How have seed plants become adapted to the enviorment?

Because some reason


Which seed is adapted to travel by water?

A coconut.I like milk though.


What organism is well suited for survival?

Those that are most suitably adapted to their environments.