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Old 13-05-2006, 07:16 PM posted to sci.bio.botany,sci.physics
 
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Default The lower limit of seed size to organize energy and produce a plant; what is it?

Kye wrote:
No. orchid seeds are not at all similar to viral particles.

Seeds of Orchidaceae use a mutually benificial, symbiotic relationship
to
germinate as they dont carry their own food supplies and use the sugars
released by the actions of particular fungi to grow.

A virus uses the cells of an organism to duplicate its own DNA... there
is
quite a marked difference.

A.P. replies:

Well I want the thermodynamics or energy relationships of the smallest
size possible plant seed. Can you have a plant grow from pure DNA, or
does it need a minimum stored energy to get it to the point where the
Sunlight takes over the job.

Apparently, between the size of an Orchid seed and a strawberry seed
lies the answer to this question of Energy equation.

The Minimum Amount of Stored Energy surrounding the DNA to create a
plant seed. That is the question.

What exactly is the millimeter size of a strawberry seed?

What exactly is the millimeter size of a orchid seed?

As we get smaller size than that of a strawberry seed we eventually
come to a size for which the physics does not allow for the seed to
develop into a plant. So that is the question. What is the minimum
Stored Energy surrounding a DNA for which the plant can grow to
maturity. This is a physical limit that needs to be well understood.

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