Page 29 - The Miracle In The Seed

Structure and Formation of a Seed

largely insoluble in water, they must be broken down chemically into
small water-soluble units, and as you will see later in the book, the se-
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ed is created with a system to solve this problem.
The existence of a store of nutrients is important not only for
plants, which need it for their seeds to develop, but also for humans
and animals. Nutrients in seeds like wheat, corn, rice, barley, rye, oats,
millet, buckwheat, legumes (peas, beans, soybeans, black-eyed peas,
peanuts) and nuts with shells (such as Brazil nuts, coconuts, walnuts,

The pea, one of
the seeds that
store sugar.

Seeds like the ones
shown in the illus-
tration (barley, pis-
tachio, walnut, rice,
hazelnut, chestnut)
are extremely nutri-
tious.

God uses
seeds as a
multi-faceted
form of provi-
sion for hu-
mans.