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  • In the grass family cotyledons are called

    Question: In the grass family cotyledons are called

    Options:

    Scutellum
    Epicotyl
    Hypocotyl
    More than one of the above

    Concept-
    -The cotyledons act as a food store in plant seeds.
    -Cotyledons are often fleshy and full of reserve food materials.
    -Based on the number of cotyledons vascular plants can be classified as Monocot and Dicot.
    -Cot word represents the cotyledons, which means an embryonic leaf.
    -Two different types of cotyledon are Monocotyledons and Dicotyledons.
    -Monocot-
    -Monocotyledons are the angiosperms or the flowering plants in which the seeds typically contain only one embryonic leaf or Cotyledon.
    -Example- Ginger, onions, wheat, and grass.
    -Dicot- 
    -Dicotyledons are the angiosperms or the flowering plants in which the seeds contain two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.
    -Example- All legumes including beans, lentils, pea, and peanuts.
    Explanation-
    In the grass family, the cotyledon is called scutellum.
    -Embryos of grass are monocotyledons.
    -The scutellum is situated towards one side (lateral) of the embryonal axis.
    -At its lower end, the embryonal axis has the radical and root cap enclosed in an undifferentiated sheath called coleorhiza.
    -The portion of the embryonal axis above the level of attachment of the scutellum is the epicotyl.
    -Epicotyl has a shoot apex and a few leaf primordia enclosed in a hollow foliar structure, the coleoptile.

    🔴Additional Information:
    -The cylindrical portion below the level of cotyledons is hypocotyl that terminates at its lower end in the radicle or root tip.
    -The portion of the embryonal axis above the level of attachment of the scutellum is the epicotyl.
    -The fertile part of the seed is the tigellum.

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