What Is A Seed?. Cuticle Vascular Tissue Seeds Fruit & Flowers Green Algae Ancestor BryophytesFernsGymnospermsAngiosperms The Plant Family Tree.

What Is A Seed?

Cuticle

Vascular Tissue

Seeds

Fruit & Flowers

Green Algae Ancestor

Bryophytes Ferns Gymnosperms

Angiosperms

The Plant “Family Tree”

What is a Seed? • The embryo of a plant

• The pollen is the “sperm” or male gamete

• The egg is found within a flower if the plant is an angiosperm; or the female cone if the plant is a gymnosperm

• Fertilization results in an embryo or SEED!

Gymnosperms have “Naked Seeds”

The female pine coneis the typical woody cone; itcontains the eggs or ovules

The male pine conecontains pollen

Mature ovulate cones and seeds

Angiosperms have male and female parts (think of lab last

week!)

The seed of an Angiosperm is found within fruit!

In Conclusion…

• What is a seed? How is it important to the lifecycle of a plant?

• Let’s investigate…..