What are monocot and dicot plants?

1.	What are monocot and dicot plants?
Answer» Monocots: The seeds of these plants bear only one cotyledon. Their leaves have parallel venation. Roots are a fibrous and similar shape. Flowers bear three petals or multiple of three trimerous. Vascular bundles are closed and scattered, i.e., cambium is not found in closed bundles and hence, no secondary growth. For example: Maize, Rice, sugarcane, Wheat, Onion, Coconut, Grasses and banana. Dicots: The seeds of these plants bear two cotyledons. Venation in the leaves is reticulate. Root system includes tap root, primary and secondary roots, etc. Vascular bundles are arranged in a ring and open type, i.e., possess cambium, which is responsible for secondary growth. Flowers have five or multiple of five petals. For examples: Potato, pea, sunflower, rose, neem, apple, banyan etc.

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Monocots: The seeds of these plants bear only one cotyledon. Their leaves have parallel venation. Roots are a fibrous and similar shape. Flowers bear three petals or multiple of three trimerous. Vascular bundles are closed and scattered, i.e., cambium is not found in closed bundles and hence, no secondary growth.

For example: Maize, Rice, sugarcane, Wheat, Onion, Coconut, Grasses and banana.

Dicots: The seeds of these plants bear two cotyledons. Venation in the leaves is reticulate. Root system includes tap root, primary and secondary roots, etc. Vascular bundles are arranged in a ring and open type, i.e., possess cambium, which is responsible for secondary growth. Flowers have five or multiple of five petals.

For examples: Potato, pea, sunflower, rose, neem, apple, banyan etc.

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