A seed is often described as "a baby plant in a box with its lunch." Explain this statement using more proper terms for baby plant, box, and lunch.
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: A seed has a "baby plant" called an embryo, which is the developing sporophyte. It is surrounded by its "lunch," i.e., food supplies in the form of nutritive tissue such as endosperm. The embryo and the nutritive tissue are in a "box," which is hardened tissue called a seed coat that protects the embryo from drying out.
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