GK
GENERAL SCIENCE
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Question
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an adult plant
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a giant plant with many leaves
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a small plant with a few leaves.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A seedling is a young sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed. Seedling development starts with germination of the seed. A typical young seedling consists of three main parts: the radicle (embryonic root), the hypocotyl (embryonic shoot), and the cotyledons (seed leaves).
Detailed explanation-2: -When a seedling sprouts, the first leaves that appear are not “true” leaves, but rather “cotyledons” or seed leaves. They sometimes still have the seed coat on their tip as they grow upwards.
Detailed explanation-3: -cotyledon, seed leaf within the embryo of a seed. 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.