If you plant a seed 6 inches in the ground

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and it grows 5 inches but hasn't broken through, is it a plant yet?
 
Is this a riddle?

It sounds like it would be a good riddle. But I am a cluess liberal.

I am not a farmer, just a whoreteculturist. So I dunno. :(
 
Once planted, it is a plant. Yours is just in the root stage.
 
Interesting

I think I'd still describe it as a germinated seed.

While I'd say it's still a plant rather than an animal, I don't think
I'd call it a plant if it's never seen the light of day.

But that raises questions about fungus, doesn't it?
 
I've heard plants need sunlight to grow...if it's growing without sunlight then I guess it can't be a plant yet! :D
 
Laurel said:
If I pull a weed, am I a murderer?

Carrots scream. Only cats can hear them. Drive by a carrot farm and see how many cats are hanging around.
 
Laurel, Yes, of course you are.

You are also an indescriminate bitch. Considering that a weed is anything that you don't want growing where it is, you could be totally ruthless and just go around killing any species of plant and not go to jail for it either.

:eek:



Actually the answer to this thread question is no.

For a plant to be a plant it has to be autotrophic, in that it produces it's own food.

Although the embryo or cotyledon will resemble the mother plant, not all physiological needs are met by it's self, as it fully depends on the endosperm for as a food source, well after emergence from the ground. Nor are it's morphological characteristics of a plant present at the time you are speaking of.

That alone is enough to get your answer from, but the fact that they are heterotrophic, in that it depends on the food stores from stored source, that if cut off, or be deficeint, they would die, make it so that you cannot classify it as a plant, thus having the need for commonly naming it a 'seedling', scientifically as 'an aggrigated of apical meristematic tissue'. It more resembles the seed in it's original state of creation, than a plant, up until full emergence (unfurling) of the first set true set of leaves, which is always the second set of leaves. They are known as true leaves, because that is when they begin photosynthesizing, producing their own food, and it becomes a true plant.

Sucks having a plant expert around, doesn't it?
Too bad she sucks at grammer and spelling. :D
 
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Gingersnap said:
PC are those your breasts?

i think the only part of that av that is PC is what's ON the breasts

is that the elmer's glue you were referring to earlier PC?
 
Problem Child said:
Laurel, I don't think weed is the best choice of words in this Oh-So-Shadowy analogy.

Yeah, that does sound crass...
 
sigh said:


i think the only part of that av that is PC is what's ON the breasts

is that the elmer's glue you were referring to earlier PC?

hehe...straight from the throbbing squeeze bottle of love, baby....
 
Problem Child said:


hehe...straight from the throbbing squeeze bottle of love, baby....

the throbbing squeeze bottle of love...?

ewww...sorry i asked...(i wonder if a lobotomy would clear my mind of that image)
 
If you put that seed in a test tube

and it germinates, is it a plant?
 
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