EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The seeds containing a single cotyledon is called a monocot seed, which germinates to produce a monocotyledonous plant. As the monocot seed germinates, it produces a single leaf on the shoot. Examples: wheat, rice and corn.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seeds can have one or two cotyledons, the one with one cotyledon is known as monocotyledon seeds like that of wheat, garlic, grasses, coconut, and paddy. Seeds having two cotyledons are known as dicotyledons and they include peas, tomato, almonds, and cashews.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cotyledons – monocots have one cotyledon within their seed, dicots have two cotyledons. Leaf veins – monocots show parallel venation, whereas dicots display reticulated venation. Roots – monocots have fibrous (adventitious) roots, dicots have a main tap root with lateral branches.

Detailed explanation-4: -Angiosperms (flowering plants) whose embryos have a single cotyledon are grouped as monocots, or monocotyledonous plants; most embryos with two cotyledons are grouped as eudicots, or eudicotyledonous plants.

Detailed explanation-5: -Monocots have one cotyledon, and dicots have two. Monocots and dicots differ in several other major ways, as well. For example, monocots (ex. lilies) have flower parts that appear in groups of three, and dicots (ex.