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Germination
Process by which an organism grows from a spore or seed / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Gemination or Germanization.
Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or spore. The term is applied to the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of an angiosperm or gymnosperm, the growth of a sporeling from a spore, such as the spores of fungi, ferns, bacteria, and the growth of the pollen tube from the pollen grain of a seed plant.
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