[syriacus]

The embryonic plant is the tree

[jas3]

"The embryonic plant is the tree"

No it isn't. Nor is a tulip bulb the flower, nor a spore the mushroom, nor is a catepillar the butterfly, nor is a robin's egg the bird. A seed is not "a" tree nor is it "the" tree. Repeatedly stating that a seed is a tree does not make it so.

You could potentially argue that a seed deserves the same moral or legal protection as a tree. And I might agree with you. But you cannot pretend an acorn is an oak tree, or a blueprint is a building, or a glacier is a lake, or a large mass of gas is a star (prior to it actually condensing into a star and igniting under fusion), or that a star is a supernova (until it actually explodes).

Someday with good luck, water, and sunshine a seed may become a tree. But until that happens, it is still a seed and not a tree.

jas3