Place a fist full of Bengal gram (or any other seeds) seeds in a bowl of water. Do you find some seeds float while others sink?
Which seeds do you think farmers should use for sowing in the field.

Place a fist full of Bengal gram (or any other seeds) seeds in a bowl of water. Do you find some seeds float while others sink? Which seeds do you think will not germinate and why?

Are there Tadi seeds in your list? Which characteristics do you find in them?

Do you know why the floated seeds are lighter in weight?

How do you find respiration in sprouted seeds ?

Do you find any relationship between the weight of the seeds and the dispersal mechanism? Discuss with suitable examples.

You may eat grapes with no seeds. How are they formed ? Write some other fruits names.

Take a glass jar and fill with soil. Show a bean seed near the wall of the jar. After 4 - 5 days you will notice seed germination. Keep the jar under the sun. Observe how root and shoot grows. Then tilt the glass jar and keep the plant horizontally. Observe the direction of the root and shoot growth for more than a week iii) Do you find any differences in the shape of epidermal cells?

What do you observe in the experiment of dropping a fist of Bengal gram seeds in water?

Take two paper cups.Fill them with fertile soil.sow two or three bean seeds in a cup and few finger millets in another cup.Sprinkle water over them.then place them by the window.After a couple of days you will see them sprout observe the newly emerging leaves. What kind of root system do you find in the bean plant?