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Name: Dax Z.
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Age: 13
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Date: 3/2/2004
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How are spores structurally different from seeds?

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Basically, spores are produced by non-flowering plants, while seeds are produced by flowering plants. A seed is the ripened ovule of a flowering plant.

Possibly helpful:

http://www.wordiq.com/cgi-bin/knowledge/lookup.cgi?title=Spore

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/spore

Anthony Brach, Ph.D


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