Seeds, Seeds, and More Seeds

It is now March 19th and I have realized that germination is a slow, lengthy process. It is necessary for plant life though, thus I must sit patiently, watering my plants and allowing them to get sunlight. The optimal conditions for my plants include: temperature between 10 degrees Celsius and 35 degrees Celsius, multiple periods of light, and a good amount of water. I believe that the plants will enjoy their new home very much.

Now onto their little seeds! Before they germinated and sprouted, they started off as little seeds in the soil. The seeds are tiny plants in a suspended state of development with a protective coating. Now, monocot and dicot seeds are different, but the basic structure is the same. Corn is monocot. 

The seed coat is the outer shell from the embryotic sack. The endosperm is the food supply containing three sets of chromosomes. Two of these chromosomes are from the mother and one from the father. The embryo is the immature part of the plant. The cotyledon is the seed leaf. The plumule is the shoot and the radicle is the root. 

Carrot is dicot. 

The seed coat is the outer shell from the embryotic sack. The plumule is the shoot and the radicle is the root. The hypocotyl is the stem and the cotyledon is the food storing seed leaf.