ACTIVITY 8 Fruit and seed anatomy Student dissection or

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ACTIVITY 8 Fruit and seed anatomy Student dissection or demonstration The fate of the parts of the flower can differ among angiosperms Floral parts typically become part of the seed and or the fruit 1 Obtain a germinated bean and use p 145 of the atlas as a guide The pod that housed the bean is the fruit of the bean plant The bean is the seed of the plant 2 The papery outer red covering of the bean is the seed coat which developed from the integuments of the ovule 3 The white structure on the internal region of the bean is the hilum the site where the seed was attached to the inner walls of the pod 4 Draw and label the exterior of the bean in the space provided 5 Remove the seed coat to expose the pale underlying structure cotyledon Gently pry open the bean How many cotyledons does a bean have 6 Once the bean is opened the embryonic sporophyte is revealed It consists of a leaf like structure called the embryonic shoot referred to as the plumule in the atlas and the embryonic root radicle that projects from the base In the germinated bean the radicle is the tail like structure protruding from the bean Draw and label the interior of the bean in the space provided 7