Like a Grain of Wheat
I am glad I spent four years in the Department of Botany. My stay gave me a robust understanding of the systems and functions of plants. More gratefully, my love for plants is burgeoning daily. I am set for postgraduate work in Plant Taxonomy (Systematics) and Anatomy. Thankfully, in this article, I do not intend to talk about my post graduate forays. I intend to play around a comment attributed to Jesus in the New Testament Gospel of John. Jesus was quoted to say " ...Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain". 1 In this statement, Jesus explains the sacrifice His disciples must make in order to follow Him and much more, the sacrifice He was predestined to make in order to buy them back. The core of the Christian message is that by the suffering and death of a single man (Jesus) all men can now have access to God. Seed Biology Seeds contain the fertilized egg, zygote, of plants. A seed is th