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Ovule vs. Seed

The main difference between Ovule and seed is that ovule is a female gametophyte that after fertilization transforms into seed where the seed is an embryonic plant which is encapsulated in a covering.

Key Differences

Ovule uses helium to attaches itself with funiculus whereas seed uses helium to attachés itself with fruit.
Ovule has an outer covering which is known as integument whereas seed has an outer cover called as a testa.
Ovule has cotyledon called nucellus whereas cotyledon of seed provides it food.
Aimie Carlson
Sep 19, 2022
Ovule has micropile which provides an entrance for the pollen whereas seed has micropile which includes entrance for water.
Samantha Walker
Sep 19, 2022
The ovule is present in the flower or ovary whereas seed is present in the fully developed fruit.
In ovule, the funicle is used to attach ovule with the placenta whereas, in seed, funicle is used to connect it with the fruit
Aimie Carlson
Sep 19, 2022
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Ovule has an embryo sac which acts as a house for nuclei whereas in embryo sac of seed egg cell fuses with the pollen to form a zygote.
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Sep 19, 2022

Comparison Chart

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The ovule is the part of the ovary of seed plants which contains the female germ cell and after fertilization becomes the seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in the outer covering

Location in a Plant

In flower and the ovary
In fruit

Outer Covering

The outer covering is the integument
The outer cover is the testa

The Helium

Through helium, ovule attaches itself with the funiculus
Through helium, seed attaches itself with fruit
Aimie Carlson
Sep 19, 2022

The Cotyledon

The nucellus is cotyledon in the ovule
Provides food to the seed
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The Micropile

Provides entrance for the pollen
Provides opening for the water

The embryo

Acts as a house for nuclei
Egg cell fuses with the pollen to form a zygote
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Sep 19, 2022

The Funicle

Attaches the ovule to the placenta
Attaches the seed with the fruit
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Sep 19, 2022

Ovule and Seed Definitions

Ovule

(Botany) A structure in seed plants that consists of the embryo sac surrounded by the nucellus and one or two integuments and that develops into a seed after it is fertilized.

Seed

A mature plant ovule containing an embryo.

Ovule

(Zoology) A small or immature ovum.
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Seed

A small dry fruit, spore, or other propagative plant part.

Ovule

(botany) The structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization; the megasporangium of a seed plant with its enclosing integuments.

Seed

Seeds considered as a group
A farmer buying seed.

Ovule

(zoology) An immature ovum in mammals.

Seed

The seed-bearing stage of a plant
The grass is in seed.

Ovule

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

Seed

A larval shellfish or a hatchling fish
Released scallop seed in the bay.

Ovule

A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization

Seed

An egg or cocoon of certain insects
Silkworm seed.

Ovule

A small or immature ovum

Seed

A tiny bubble in a piece of glass.

Seed

(Medicine) A form of a radioactive isotope that is used to localize and concentrate the amount of radiation administered to a body site, such as a tumor.

Seed

A source or beginning; a germ
The seed of an idea.

Seed

A small amount of material used to start a chemical reaction.

Seed

A small crystal used to start a crystallization process.

Seed

A cell that disperses, especially a cancer cell that spreads from a primary tumor to another location in the body.

Seed

Offspring; progeny.

Seed

Family stock; ancestry.

Seed

Sperm; semen.

Seed

(Sports) A player who has been seeded for a tournament, often at a given rank
A top seed.

Seed

To plant seeds in (land, for example); sow.

Seed

To plant (a crop, for example) as seeds in soil.

Seed

To remove the seeds from (fruit).

Seed

To furnish with something that grows or stimulates growth or development
A bioreactor seeded with bacteria.

Seed

To disperse to, as cancer cells
Organs seeded by circulating tumor cells.

Seed

To disperse or transfer (cancer cells, for example)
A needle biopsy that seeded cancer cells into adjacent tissue.
Seed stem cells onto collagen gels.

Seed

(Meteorology) To sprinkle (a cloud) with particles, as of silver iodide, in order to disperse it or to produce precipitation.

Seed

To arrange (the drawing for positions in a tournament) so that the more skilled contestants meet in the later rounds.

Seed

To rank (a contestant) in this way.

Seed

To help (a business, for example) in its early development.

Seed

To sow seed.

Seed

To pass into the seed-bearing stage.

Seed

(Medicine) To disperse and often multiply, as cancer cells.

Seed

Set aside for planting a new crop
Seed corn.
Seed potatoes.

Seed

Intended to help in early stages
Provided seed capital for a fledgling business.

Seed

A fertilized and ripened ovule, containing an embryonic plant.

Seed

(countable) Any small seed-like fruit.
If you plant a seed in the spring, you may have a pleasant surprise in the autumn.

Seed

Any propagative portion of a plant which may be sown, such as true seeds, seed-like fruits, tubers, or bulbs.

Seed

An amount of seeds that cannot be readily counted.
The entire field was covered with geese eating the freshly sown seed.

Seed

(countable) A fragment of coral.

Seed

(uncountable) Semen.
A man must use his seed to start and raise a family.

Seed

A precursor.
The seed of an idea
Which idea was the seed (idea)?

Seed

(countable) The initial state, condition or position of a changing, growing or developing process; the ultimate precursor in a defined chain of precursors.

Seed

(sports) The initial position of a competitor or team in a tournament. (seed position)
The team with the best regular season record receives the top seed in the conference tournament.

Seed

The competitor or team occupying a given seed. (seed position)
The rookie was a surprising top seed.

Seed

(cryptography) The initialization state of a pseudorandom number generator or similar system. (seed number)
If you use the same seed you will get exactly the same pattern of numbers.

Seed

Commercial message in a creative format placed on relevant sites on the Internet. (seed idea or seed message)
The latest seed has attracted a lot of users in our online community.

Seed

Offspring, descendants, progeny.
The seed of Abraham

Seed

Race; generation; birth.

Seed

A small bubble formed in imperfectly fused glass.

Seed

(transitive) To plant or sow an area with seeds.
I seeded my lawn with bluegrass.

Seed

(transitive) To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.

Seed

(transitive) To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of.
A venture capitalist seeds young companies.
The tournament coordinator will seed the starting lineup with the best competitors from the qualifying round.
The programmer seeded fresh, uncorrupted data into the database before running unit tests.

Seed

To allocate a seeding to a competitor.

Seed

To leave (files) available for others to download through peer-to-peer file sharing protocols (e.g. BitTorrent).

Seed

(intransitive) To be qualified to compete, especially in a quarter-final, semi-final, or final.
The tennis player seeded into the quarters.

Seed

(intransitive) To produce seed.

Seed

(intransitive) To grow to maturity.

Seed

To ejaculate inside the penetratee during intercourse, especially in the rectum.

Seed

(dialectal) see

Seed

A ripened ovule, consisting of an embryo with one or more integuments, or coverings; as, an apple seed; a currant seed. By germination it produces a new plant.
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself.

Seed

The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; - not used in the plural.

Seed

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

Seed

The principle of production.
Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed,Which may the like in coming ages breed.

Seed

Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David.

Seed

Race; generation; birth.
Of mortal seed they were not held.

Seed

To sow seed.

Seed

To shed the seed.

Seed

To grow to maturity, and to produce seed.
Many interests have grown up, and seeded, and twisted their roots in the crevices of many wrongs.

Seed

To sprinkle with seed; to plant seeds in; to sow; as, to seed a field.

Seed

To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations.
A sable mantle seeded with waking eyes.

Seed

A small hard fruit

Seed

A mature fertilized plant ovule consisting of an embryo and its food source and having a protective coat or testa

Seed

One of the outstanding players in a tournament

Seed

Anything that provides inspiration for later work

Seed

The thick white fluid containing spermatozoa that is ejaculated by the male genital tract

Seed

Go to seed; shed seeds;
The dandelions went to seed

Seed

Help (an enterprise) in its early stages of development by providing seed money

Seed

Bear seeds

Seed

Place (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth;
She sowed sunflower seeds

Seed

Distribute (players or teams) so that outstanding teams or players will not meet in the early rounds

Seed

Sprinkle with silver iodide particles to disperse and cause rain;
Seed clouds

Seed

Inoculate with microorganisms

Seed

Remove the seeds from;
Seed grapes

Ovule vs. Seed

The ovule is the part of the pistil in a plant and hence located in flower means in the ovary. A seed, on the other hand, is present in fully repined fruit. After fertilization, the ovary develops to form fruit, and the ovule becomes a seed. Outer covering in both ovule and seed protects against microorganisms and mechanical damage. In ovule, the outer cover is called integument. It protects the nuclear tissue of the ovule. Whereas in the case of seed, the outer covering is called testa which is harder and provides protection to the delicate inner structures of a seed? The helium is a small point present on the surface of both ovule and seed. In ovule, helium is the point at which the body of the ovule is attached to the funiculus. In contrast, in seed, helium is the point at which the seed attaches itself to the fruit. Helium on the seed can be identifying as a black scar.

Cotyledon is a seed leaf which is essential for the food collection. In ovule, the parenchymatous cells (nucellus) store food which is used by the embryo sac for its development. In the case of seed, cotyledon plays the role of providing food for the seed as cotyledon is highly packed with starch. The micropile is a small opening on the surface of ovule and seed. In ovule, micropile provides an entrance for the pollen into ovule to carry out the process of fertilization. While in seed, micropile provides entry for water which is essential for its germination.

What is Ovule?

The ovule is a part of the female reproductive organ in seed plants. It is the place where female sexual cells are made and located and after it develops into a seed after fertilization and the seed forms a complete plant. Ovules are located in ovaries at the bottom of the vase-like part, the carpel, which has a neck called style and an opening called stigma. After fertilization, ovule starts to swell, and its wall starts to get tough to prepare a seed, and its walls begin to grow around it and become the fruit. Some plants like avocado have a single ovule in ovary while in some plants; there are many ovaries which develop into many seeds. Another aspect that plants differ from each other regarding the ovule is the place where the ovules are present. In gymnosperms, ovules are found on the scales of female cones while in angiosperm, ovules are present inside the ovary within the carpel.

The ovule plays a vital function in sexual production. Once pollen falls on the stigma of a flower, it sends a pollen tube down through the style. This tube enters into the ovary and reaches the ovule of the plant. Once this process starts, fertilization arises as the nucleus of the pollen is sent down into the tube to merge with the nucleus in the embryo sac. Components of an ovule are the nucellus, integument, the female gametophyte. Ovules have classified into six categories based on shapes; orthotropous, anatropous, Hemi anatropous, campylotropous, amphitropous and cirinotropous,

What is Seed?

The seed is an essential part of any plant. The ovule after fertilization forms seed. The embryo is made up of a radicle, embryonal axis, and one or two cotyledons. Seeds are found in fruits and can be converted into new plants when planted. A seed is of two types; monocotyledonous seed and dicotyledonous seed. As the name is depicting, a monocotyledonous seed has only one cotyledon. There is only one covering of the seed coat. The monocotyledonous seed has the following parts; seed coat, endosperm, aleurone layer, embryo, scutellum, embryonic axis, and coleoptile. Unlike monocotyledonous, the dicotyledonous seed has the following elements; seed coat, helium, microphone, embryo, cotyledon, radicle, and endosperm. Seeds are produced in various related groups of plants and manner if different from angiosperms from the gymnosperm. In angiosperms, seeds are enclosed in fruits whereas, in gymnosperm, seeds are naked.

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