Where might a seed grow, if it has adapted to traveling by water?
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Along the sea shores . Coconuts and the mangroves are the best examples of voyaging fruits and seeds,
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Wind: Exmample--Maples hae seeds with "wings" line a helicopter, called a samara, that are spread by the wind.\n\nWater: Mangroves produce seeds that are long and pointed, that float down the river and will eventually root.\n\nAnimals: Oaks rpoduce Acorns, some are eaten and others are carried off and planted by squirrels.\n\nFriction: Beggar Lice is a plant that makes seeds that stick to animals walking by.\n\nGood Luck
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In wet/moist climates
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Some go airborne, some are transported by animals on their fur or in their droppings, some plants tumble away from their roots when the seeds are ready, and some just fall to the ground or into water and float away.
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none, nil, nada, zip\n\nalcohol dehydrates and plants need water to grow.
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miricle grow and lots of water.
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its a wonder\n\n!\n\nto know it\nThe seeds are carried away from the mother plant by animals called dispersers. In some cases the animal carries away an entire fruit, in other cases the animal is carrying seeds alone. The animal usually feeds on the fruit (ovary wall), but "tosses" the seeds (or passes them through its digestive system). This assures that seeds end up far away from the "mother" plant, where they can develop without competition from "mom."\n\nHaving been taken away from the parent, it is time for the seeds to sprout or germinate. Seed germination is defined as the emergence of the radicle through the seed coat. Common garden seeds germinate if given just water and reasonably warm temperatures.\n\nWild species usually have some kind of deeper dormancy to avoid sprouting in late summer or fall when the seeds are commonly dispersed. This assures that tender seedlings are not frozen at a young age by the approaching winter. Instead the seedlings do not appear until warm weather arrives in springtime.\n\nIf a species has evolved a very thick seed coat, it may require scarification of that seed coat before water can enter the seed and initiate germination. Perhaps the coat has to be gnawed at by animals, or frozen and thawed repeatedly to crack the coat, or rund down the rocks in a stream bed or up beach in pounding surf to wear the coat down. Perhaps the seed is swallowed whole by the disperser. The thick seed coat protects the dormant embryo as it passes through the animal's digestive system. The weakening of the seed coat through digestion means that the seed is ready to sprout when it gets deposited (along with a bit of fertilizer) by the disperser somewhere new in the environment. Yet other seeds require a brief exposure to fire to scarify the seed coat.\n\nIn species with thin seed coats, light may be able to penetrate into the dormant embryo. The embryo may then either use the presence of light or the absence of light to trigger its germination process. Small seeds with thin seed coats are likely to use light as a signal for germination. If these are buried shallowly enough for light to hit the seed, then its germination will initiate and before it runs out of reserves, its cotyledons will be doing photosynthesis. If the small seed is deeply buried it does not germinate; it has no idea how deep it is buried and may not have sufficient reserves on board to make it to the surface before they run out. Evolution favors shutting down germination in the dark for those species. For large-seeded species, the opposite may be true. There is an advantage to having your reserves buried before starting to germinate...otherwise the sprout just acts as a flag to say..."come and eat my nutritious seeds here on the surface." Evolution favors a large seed with lots of investment in storage to wait until it is buried before sending up its shoot. Such a seed will key in on darkness rather than light. In laboratory you will see an example of each of these kinds of evolutionary adaptations!\n\nIn yet other species, the embryo is fully developed when the seeds are dispersed. They need to be deposited in soil that possesses fungi that serve as host to the seed and seedling until the development is completed and the seedling is big enough to grow on its own. Trying to sprout many orchid seeds in common garden soil is futile...the required fungal hosts are not present...so leaving wild orchids where they naturally grow is the best idea.\n\nIn most species of wild plants the mother invests the seed with abscisic acid. This hormone makes the embryo dormant until environmental conditions and native enzymes permit the abscisic acid to be broken down inside the embryo. The enzyme required is present in the embryo in the fall, but it is inactive until activated by low temperature. About four weeks at 4°C is required to activate the enzyme and degrade all the abscisic acid in the embryo. This cold
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water really do play a vital role in seed germination because seeds undergo water imbibation (especially those seeds that have been dormant for quite a long time) in order to break the seed coat. however, when it comes to the percentage of water to be present in soil, that would actually depend on the kind of plant seed that you are germinating. there are those plant seeds that just requires soil to be moist (that is, most of the soil micropores are filled with water) and others would need more water molecules in the soil (soil macropores are filled with water).
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I don't think it could "fall" into the ocean.\nBut if you follow along with global warming rasing the sea level, then at some point if it stayed where it is, that location would be underwater.  I would have to think it would be moved further inland if that happened.
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Animals and plants develope unique features that help them to adapt to their enviroment.
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it does have seeds but its very rare that u can find them in dro because they are real small
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Water! Most of the earth is covered with water.
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Around, rivers, lakes, oceans, any body of water that is likely to flood. like land thats actually lower then sea level and is connected to the ocean by a Dam or resivor
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somewhere theres water
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Some seeds... the ground... water... the sun... \n\nIt's a pretty simple formula...
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Yes, there are a few examples of particularly strong potatoes that can, under optimal conditions, grow in sand. Though, this is rare at best. Sand provides little nutrients and is terrible at holding water.
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It's a matter of survival.  Only a small percentage of seeds produced by plants will actually grow into mature plants.  Some won't germinate.  Some won't wind up in a place where they can germinate.  Some will be eaten.  Plants produce so many seeds so that enough of them will grow into mature plants to ensure survival of the species.