Revision Notes on germination!

there are three things necessary for germination:

warmth

water

oxygen

the way it germainates:

1.usping the food store in the seed, it grows roots

2.it grows a shoot up above the soil

3.it grows leaves to photosynthesise

4.once photosynthesis occurs, the seed shrivels up under the ground as it no longer needs the food store eith which to respire

5.it is now fully functional and independant plant

the parts of a seed:

the process of germination: