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What is a common misconception about seeds?

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Seeds are frequently confused with the fruit enclosing them in flowering plants as in the grains and nuts. The seed-bearing plants are the highest in the evolutionary scale; in lower plants (e.g., mosses and ferns) the spore is the agent of propagation.

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