Parts of a Seed

It is a product of the ripened ovule of a flowering plant after fertilization.

• seed

• seed coat

• endosperm

Three basic parts of a seed.

• seed coat

• cotyledon

• embryo

• ovary

It encloses the embryo.

• seed coat

• cotyledon

• radicle

It is where the seed was once attached to the ovary wall.

• hilum

• plumule

• radicle

It is the stored food structure for the embryo until it has formed sufficient roots and leaves to obtain its own food.

• endosperm

• plumule

• radicle

Seeds that have two cotyledon is called ____________ .

• dicotyledon

• monocotyledon

Seeds that have one cotyledon is called ____________ .

• dicotyledon

• monocotyledon

It is the embryonic shoot, where true leaves grow.

• plumule

• radicle

• epicotyl

• hypocotyl

It is the embryonic root that comes out first during seed germination.

• plumule

• radicle

• epicotyl

• hypocotyl

It is the embryonic stem above the point of attachment of the cotyledons.

• plumule

• radicle

• epicotyl

• hypocotyl