what is seed coat? and write its functions? class 5
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The purpose of the seed coat is to protect the seed from physical, temperature-related, or water damage. The seed coat also ensures that the plant seed remain in a state of dormancy until conditions are right for the plant embryo to germinate, or sprout...
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The seed coat is the seed's essential protection against unfriendly ecological circumstances.
Define seed coat:
- A seed coat safeguards the inside pieces of a seed.
- The seed coat has two layers.
- The external layer is thick and known as the testa.
- The inward layer is slender and known as tegmen.
Functions of seed coat:
- A hard seed coat shields the seed from mechanical pressure as well as from microorganism intrusion and from temperature and mugginess vacillations during capacity.
- A thick seed coat safeguards the seed from daylight and water.
- It forestalls the deficiency of water and passage of parasites inside the seeds.
- The hard seed coats forestall germination during horrible natural conditions.
- Without the seed coat, the seed probably won't have the option to make due.
- The seed coat can shield from outside dangers like bugs.
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