Done by Pui Leng, Bellna, Dzakir, Hazim, Glen

Learning tapestry 2012

What are seeds ?

Seeds are embryonic plants.

Seeds have been an important development in the reproduction and spread of flowering plants.

These are seeds.

Picture of an avocado seed:

Why are seeds important?

Some seeds are important to human because cooking oil comes from coconut seed and humans eat seeds too.

Seeds>Plants>Produce oxygen>Humans take in oxygen to live.

How are seeds formed?

The flower of a plant has a female pistil. At the top of the pistil is a sticky pad called the stigma. This area catches the pollen from another flower. Later, when the pollen unites with the ovule, the seed is formed.

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Graphic of a flower. This flower uses asexual reproduction to reproduce.

Seed Structure

Structure of a seed:

A seed has a seed coat, seed leaf, shoot and root.

*Part 4 provides the embryo with energy during the first stages of germination.

Part 1:Seed coatPart 2:Shoot Part 3:RootPart 4:Seed leaf

Process of germination

Some facts on seeds.

Some seeds germinate very easily while others need certain conditions to be met before they will germinate

Pollination

GerminationFertilization

Fruit/Seed dispersal

Process of sexual reproduction of flowering plants Asexual reproduction of flowering plants

Asexual reproduction is the formation of new individuals from the cell(s) of a single parent.

Some more facts on seeds

Without seeds, there will not be trees and

THESE will not be possible.

Try to spot the birds! Have you found them? There they are!

PlantSeeds

FruitAnimals eat fruits.

As part of Learning Tapestry, we went to Singapore Botanic Gardens for a learning journey. There, we took some pictures with a phone.

Our trip to Singapore Botanic Gardens

Here are some photographs

These are waterfalls

Lily

Fishes

Thank you for your kind attention!! ( Snort)

Special thanks to: Google