What are the various stages in the plant cycle of life?
Take a look here for a diagram, essay and an interactive activity that I found to be very cool!: An essential characteristic of a seed plant is that it begins its life as an embryonic plant inside the protective covering of a seed. When conditions are right—for example, when it has been exposed to water for a period of time—the seed germinates. As the young plant develops, stems and roots grow. The plant reaches maturity when it is able to reproduce by creating new seeds. Seed plants that reproduce through the pollination of flowers are called angiosperms. Angiosperms have male and female parts that work together to create a new plant. The male parts are the stamens—a filament and anther (where the pollen is produced). The female part is the pistil—the stigma, style, and ovary (where the eggs are produced in ovules). When a flower is pollinated, often with the help of birds or insects, pollen lands on the sticky surface of the stigma. It then travels down the style, which serves as a p
