How are spores different from seeds?

Question

How are spores different from seeds?

Answer 1

A spore is a single cell that resulted from meiosis.

A seed is a mature ovule, which is a complex multicellular structure.  In flowering plants (angiosperms), a monocot seed has a seed coat, endosperm (food reserve), and an embryo (immature plant) that is attached to a single seed leaf (cotyledon).   In dicots, the food reserve has been tranferred from the endosperm to two cotyledons.  So a typical dicot seed has a seed coat and an embryo with two cotyledons.

Check out the following link for more details about plant life cycles.

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~braselto/read...

For development of seeds you need to click on Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, both of which are seed plants.  Note that seeds of Gymnosperms differ from seeds of Flowering Plants although both are mature ovules.  Details are in the readings.