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Accomplished artists may have painted hundreds of verses on a kernel; but the unwritten genetic instructions a seed carries make it an indomitable botanical marvel. The 'fierce energy' a seed carries, as George Bernard Shaw would describe it, can help it explode into becoming any one of the estimated 352,000 kinds of plants that use seeds to reproduce, from humble mustard to mighty oak.
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