A Seed Is a Time Capsule
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Seeds are Time Capsules - Seeds protect the survival of species from generation to generation even after all the living parents have died. Seeds are nature’s time capsules!
Note: Seeds protect the survival of species from generation to generation even after all the living parents have died. Unlike animals that can only reproduce from living parents, seeds can remain alive to allow the species to survive long after all the parent plants have died.
Seeds are nature's time capsules!
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Seeds are nature's progeny en-capsuled.
Life's germ in suspended animation,
Awaiting the trigger to grow, scheduled
By warmth, rain, season to spark gestation.
Tiny seed has script to create tall trees
Using DNA code coiled in germ cells.
Shoots sent skyward, roots down, through the soil squeeze
To play out the process, the code foretells.
Seeds stored for decades remain viable
Kept in seed banks to save diversity,
When tree survival unreliable
Through habitat, climate adversity.
Seed banks are time capsule stores, that sustain
Old species, with chance to spring up again.
Copyright © John Anderson | Year Posted 2017
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