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Very simply, once a plant has flowered and the flower has been pollinated, it develops one or more seeds which contain a miniature new plant surrounded by a store of food to help the new plant grow until it can make its own food.

These seeds dry and get scattered and lie around in a dormant state until the conditions are good for the new plant to grow (this may be a warming of the soil in spring or in dry areas the arrival of rain). When this happens the new miniature plant begins to grow and the food store is converted to sugar to feed the new plant. A root then grows out of the seed and goes into the soil while a little later one or two seed leaves will appear above ground to catch the sun. This process is called germination and a germinated seed is one that is producing a root and seed leaves.

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