Seedy Plants

  Hey! Today we are going to learn about seed plants. Not every plant has seeds.

   Now you know what they look like, and here is what we are going to learn...

• The characteristics of  seed plants
• The main characteristics of gymnosperms and angiosperms and their importance
• How are monocots and dicots the same.

 Lets start
     An obvious characteristic is that they all have seeds. Seeds help them reproduce. For example, pine cones are seeds, yes seeds, people get mistaken. Pine cones fall off of trees and then they reproduce as new trees.




    Another characteristic is that all seed plants have vascular tissue. Vascular tissue brings food and nutrients all around the plant.


         Now we are going to talk about the main characteristics of gymnosperms and angiosperms.
Gymnosperms
     Gymnosperms are the oldest trees alive today. As a matter of fact, there is a tree in California that is a gymnosperm and is 4,900 years old! Gymnosperms are vascular. They produce seeds on female pine cones. Gymnosperms don't produce flowers or fruit. The leaves are mostly needle like or scale like. The four divisions of gymnosperms are conifers, cycads, ginkgoes, and gnetophytes.


Angiosperms
  Angiosperms are vascular. They produce flowers and fruit unlike the gymnosperms. Their seeds are inside a fruit. That is why when you take out the seed from an apple and plant it, it makes another tree. More than half of the plants that are known are angiosperm. Angiosperm is divided into two groups. I would be talking more about that later

Monocots and Dicots   
Now we are going to talk about the similarities between monocots and dicots. They both are angiosperms like I said. They both have seeds in them. Monocots have 1 seed. Dicots have 2 seeds.  Mono means one and di means two.  They each have seed leaves in their seed. There is one seed leaf per seed.




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  Resources: My Textbook. pgs. 286-289