Did you eat any seeds this morning?

Seed Plants

Seeds you can eat

Plants produce seeds

Also have gametophyte and sporophyte stage, but both occur in one plant

Pollen can be transported by wind or animals

Characteristics of Seed Plants

Stored food (endosperm) in the cotyledons.

Young plant

Seed coat

Seed structure

Seeds have no seed covering.Most common are Conifers

Important to you for wood, paper, soap, turpentine, paint, and ink.

Gymnosperms

Life Cycle

Have a seed covering

Produce flowers and fruits

Over 235,000

Can be found in every ecosystem

Angiosperms

Fruits help the seeds be transported by:

Animals fur

Wind

Water

Eaten

Reproduction

Two Kinds

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Importance

2. One advantage of seed plants is that young plants are nourished by food stored the seed.

3. The gametophytes of seed plants are protected in the reproductive structures of the sporophyte.

8. Flowers and fruits adaptations that help angiosperms reproduce are sticking to the fur and tasting good.

9. The way the plant can ensure its seeds are carries throughout the forest is to have tasty fruit.

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