DENDROLOGY

TREE PROPAGATION AND PLANTING

SEED PROPAGATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The cotyledon is
A
the baby plant inside the seed
B
the food source for the new plant
C
the hard outside shell of the seed
D
The small plant that first starts growing outside the seed
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Cotyledons help supply the nutrition a plant embryo needs to germinate and become established as a photosynthetic organism and may themselves be a source of nutritional reserves or may aid the embryo in metabolizing nutrition stored elsewhere in the seed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cotyledons of seed are units to store reserve food in the form of fats and proteins which are used by young embryo after germination, during its initial growth as a seedling.

Detailed explanation-3: -A cotyledon stores food for the seed which it uses during the process of germination. Cotyledons also form the first leaves in a baby plant.

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