If you cut a seed in half... will both halves grow?

Sometimes oranges have two zygotes in them (especially if they have been cross-pollinated). One will be a clone of the parent (oranges come true from seed usually, unless they have been cross-pollinated in which case you get one parent and one offspring). So it CAN happen.

This will not work unfortunately.

The seed contains a miniscule plant embryo in it. The bulk of the seed is simply food for that embryo.

If you break or cut a seed in half without harming that embryo, the half with the embryo will sprout and grow, as long as conditions are correct.

If when the seed is cut in half or broken in half, the embryo is damaged/injured it will die and not grow at all.

The zygote is the scientifically correct term for a plant embryo.

nope... will not work... try taking a human egg and cutting it in half and see if it grows... NOT

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A few will, most will not.

Poly-embryony commonly occurs in citrus1.
Existence of multiple nucellar embryos
in the seeds of a particular citrus population
was reported earlier2. However, similar
studies on multiple zygotic embryos in a
seed developed through the cleavage of
the original zygote or zygotic embryo3
are rare. In a natural cross-pollinated
population of citrus, embryos of zygotic
origin produce heterogeneous segregated
population and those of nucellar origin
produce progenies identical to the mother
plant. It is normally expected that from a
polyembryonic citrus seed the zygotic
embryo will produce a single seedling
and multiple nucellar embryos will produce
more than one nucellar seedling. So
roguing out the off-types (zygotic) seedlings
from the raised population may create
true to the mother-type nucellar progeny4.
This expectation may fail if the particular
plant population has the inherent nature
of producing zygotic twins or triplets.
There is no precise scientific method for
identification of nucellar and zygotic
seedlings from a raised seedling population.
DNA polymorphism analysis of the
seedlings by RAPD and other markers
could confirm the differences between
them5.
Seeds from twenty-eight mandarin orange
(Citrus reticulata Blanco) plants from
ten different locations of Darjeeling Hills
in West Bengal, Upper and Lower Assam
and West Khasi Hills in Meghalaya,
northeastern Himalayan region, India
were collected. Sterilized seeds were incubated
in moist germinating plate and
allowed for germination for 5–7 days.
The germinating nucellar and zygotic
embryos were identified following the
procedure standardized by Tisserat6 and
their numbers were counted. The seedlings
were grown in sterile soil : sand :
organic matter mixture (2 : 1 : 1) for further
observation. Seedlings of different
origin were tested for their RAPD profiling
with three primers selected from a set
of 15, on the basis of reproducibility of
bands and their efficiency of differentiation7.
Occurrence of more than one embryo
within a mature seed was a common
phenomenon in all the 28 selected plants.

What type of seed are you interested in sprouting OP?

Actually, none.

I just honestly didn't know if it was possible...

I did a quick search and couldn't find the answer (put in simple terms) so I knew this was the place to come for the answer...

I know there are quite a few smart people lurking in these pages...

I've observed sprouted peach seeds with two stems and two taproots/one seed also.

Only if it is a potato.

Weel, given a single zygote, (which is the norm) you will only get one sprout if the zygote is undamaged.

And potatoes aren't seeds.

Only if a spud were a seed...(not that it can't grow a clone)...but that was pretty smart thinking nonetheless.

human embryos up to two weeks can be divided in two, and each embryo will continue to develop, presumably into an infant, although we can't know if any scientist has ever actually allowed such split embryos to develop because such a scientist would be punished if he/she published it.

medical ethicists have used this to argue that it's not logically consistent to consider an embryo less than 14 days old to be an individual human life. and if the embryo is not an individual human life, can it be considerd to be human life at all? or should it be considered to only be human life in the sense that any living cell of your body, separated and grown in a petrie dish, is human life?

the real owner of the seed will not allow the seed to be cut. they will say "no do not cut the seed please spare it".

you cut a hologram in half, you get two holograms.

If I divide my flatulence in half, will both halves stink equally? Hell yes.

Lemme see...that's one flatulent, two flatulents. How many ya got?

This level of thinking follows the holographic earth theories of the late 90's, however. Theya re correct a zygote is within the seed, therefore any cuttign of the seed simply reduces the feed, or splices the zygote. It will not work unfortunately

But I like your thinking

Please wait till next year when you take 8th grade earth science, AND PAY ATTENTION!!!

Your stupid questions will be answered...

There must be a small window of oppurtunity at some stage in that seed production where the process could be split and 2 seeds develop surely, with humans as has been said its upto 2 weeks, i gather the human embryo is much larger and easier to manage than the seed at the same stage of development??

Lets say you got a bud with 30 possible seed heads that would eventually flower, has anyone ever noted that a bud with thirty seed heads can sometimes produce 31 or 32 seeds?? if so then its possible.

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