Bean Dissection

What was the hard outside part of the bean seed called?

• Seed coat

• Cotyledon

• Embryo

• Adaptation

What does the seed coat do?

• Give seed nutrients until it can photosynthesize

• It's the baby plant!! :)

• Hard outside coat to protect seed until in a suitable environment

• It has no specific function for the seed.

What do you call most of the inside part of the seed?

• Seed Coat

• Cotyledon

• Embryo

• Germination

What does the cotyledon do?

• It's the baby plant!! :)

• Protective outer coat; provides protection for the seed until it is in suitable environment

• It has no specific function

• Provides nutrients for the growing plant until it can photosynthesize

What did we call the long, dangling part of the seed that we only were able to observe in the soaked seed?

• Seed Coat

• Cotyledon

• Embryo

• Adaptation

What is the embryo?

• Provides protection to the plant until in a suitable environment

• It has no specific function

• It's the baby plant! :)

• Provides nutrients until the plant can photosynthesize

What is germination?

• The process of a seed coming out of dormancy

• Any structure that helps an organism survive

• The country of Germany

• None of the above

What is an "environmental factor?"

• a condition in an environment that determines if it is suitable for an organism

• A baby plant

• How a seed comes out of dormancy

• None of these.

What may have prevented the seeds from germinating while they were in our classroom over the weekend?

• The salt in the solution we used

• The temperature in the classroom

• The amount of water we used

• The seeds maybe needed more time to germinate

This image shows a seed germinating. What do we call the things under and above the ground?

• Roots and leaves

• Roots and shoots

• Strings and things

• Embryo and cotyledon