Sunday, May 6, 2012

monocot eudicot

Angiosperms, flowering plants, are divided into two groups: monocots and dicots.




http://www.emc.maricopa.edu/faculty/farabee/biobk/biobookplantanatii.html

MONOCOT CROSS SECTION AND TRANSECTION
T.S. of a Monocot Root
Cross-Section of a Monocot Root

Interesting Fact =
Monocot seeds have one "seed leaf" termed a cotyledon (in fact monocot is a shortening of monocotyledon). Dicots have two cotyledons. Both groups, however, have the same basic architecture of nodes, internodes, etc.


Comparison of monocot (left, oat) and dicot (right, bean) gross anatomy

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