Dry seeds,when placed in water,swell due to:

If two types of seeds,like pea and maize,are kept in water at the same time,which among the two will imbibe more water?

Which is a correct order (w.r.t. imbibing capacity in decreasing order)?

Plant seeds,when sown in soil,germinate and emerge from it due to:

$A$ professor kept some moist seeds in an airtight jar and started lecturing. At the end of the experiment,an explosion occurred in the jar. What did the professor want to explain?

Differentiate between the following: Imbibition and Diffusion.