(March 9, 2013 at 2:24 pm)catfish Wrote:(March 9, 2013 at 1:52 pm)Psykhronic Wrote: The US government defines seeds as plants? Where? Not entirely doubting it, but for example, this USDA site has "fruits, plants, and plant products" listed and has a section that says "Plants and Seeds for Planting"
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/...t_imports/
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/pdf/PlantProtAct2000.pdfQuote:(13) Plant
The term ‘‘plant’’ means any plant (including
any plant part) for or capable of propagation,
including a tree, a tissue culture, a
plantlet culture, pollen, a shrub, a vine, a cutting,
a graft, a scion, a bud, a bulb, a root, and
a seed.
A google search for "is a seed a plant?"
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You do realize that by this analogy the definition of human would include a sperm, an egg, a zygote, stem cells or any tissue culture that can be reverse engineered to make a clone - which means any part of human body? Remember that the next time you get a haircut.