Seeds to Plants
Seeds to Plants: Overview
This Topic covers sub-topics such as Seeds, Seeds of Vegetables, Types of Seeds, Structure of a Seed, Seeds of Fruits, Sprouting of Seeds, Sprouted Seeds, Planting of Seeds, Soaking of Seeds and, Requirement of Soil for Plant Growth
Important Questions on Seeds to Plants
In which of the following cases will seeds sprout?
Suggest the reason why the shoot part is grown upward?
Do all plants need same amount of water?
Give one example of a fruit that has many seeds.
What do you understand by germination of seed? How can you show that oxygen, water and temperature are necessary for seed germination?
The organism given below is an example of a _____.
Find the odd one in each group.
Observe the radicle, plumule, etc. Which portion of the sprouting seed comes out first?
Look carefully at the sprouted chana and make its drawing?
Name the type of food that can be sprouted.
Fill in the blank with a suitable word given in the brackets:
_____ (Seed coat/Embryo) is the outer hardcover of the seed that is swollen.
Seeds like maize, rice and wheat have one cotyledon and are known as _____ (monocots/dicots).
Solve the crossword puzzle.
DOWN:-
1. Pieces of a stem that can grow into new plants.
ACROSS:-
1. Tiny things produced instead of seeds by some plants for reproduction.
2. Growth of a baby plant from a seed.
3. Joining of a male cell with a female cell.
4. Scattering of seeds away from the parent plant.
5. It protects the seed.
Somanna is a lazy person. Even though he owns a piece of land, he has not worked for a single day in his land. He used to live only by receiving what others gave him. He was very fond of groundnuts, especially fried groundnuts. Once while eating fried groundnuts he got an idea. He thought that if he sowed groundnut in his land, he would get enough groundnuts to eat, and he need not beg anybody for it. Also, he felt that if he sowed fried groundnuts, the yield would be fried groundnuts. So there would be no need to fry the groundnuts. Not knowing the type of seeds to be sown, Somanna started sowing fried groundnuts from the next day itself. Seeing Somanna working in his land, the neighbouring farmers were very happy that Somanna had shed his laziness finally. Days passed. Plants grew and greenery was everywhere. But not a single plant appeared in Somanna's land.
You have read the story. Why did the plants not grow in Somanna's land?
The baby plant in the seed starts using the food stored in the seed after dispersal.
Most flowering plants reproduce through:
The monocot plants have seeds with two cotyledons.
Give one-word answer.
Which gas is changed into its useful form by the roots of the pea and bean plants?
