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Why do boiled seeds fail to sprout?

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The boiled seeds failed to sprout because boiling denatures or damages certain enzymes or proteins that are required for germination.

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Q. take some gram seeds in a bowl, labelled A, and add water to them. Leave them undisturbed for a day. Similarly, put some boiled gram seeds in another bowl, labelled B. You will observe that most of the seeds in bowl A have sprouted, but none of the seeds in bowl B have sprouted. Think and find the reason why the boiled seeds have not sprouted.

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