Edexcel IGCSE Biology · Spec 3.4
Seeds and Fruits
How seeds and fruits form after fertilisation, and the structure of a seed.
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Seeds and Fruits
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Spec 3.4
What you need to know
- Describe how a pollen tube grows down to the ovule
- Know that fertilisation happens inside the ovule
- Understand that the ovule becomes a seed and the ovary becomes a fruit
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What do the ovule and ovary become after fertilisation?
The ovule becomes the seed and the ovary becomes the fruit.
Name the main parts of a seed.
The embryo (radicle and plumule), a food store (cotyledon) and the protective seed coat (testa).
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