How do seeds help a baby plant?
Seeds protect and nourish the embryo or young plant. They usually give a seedling a faster start than a sporeling from a spore, because of the larger food reserves in the seed and the multicellularity of the enclosed embryo. A seedling is a young plant, especially one coming out from seed and not from cutting. A seedling develops out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with the germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle, the hypocotyl, and the cotyledon.