Monocot vs Dicot

One cotyledon (food storage area)

• Monocot

• Dicot

Two cotyledons (food storage area)

• Monocot

• Dicot

Long narrow leaf

• Monocot

• Dicot

While walking in the woods, you encounter an unfamiliar non-woody flowering plant. If you want to know whether it is a monocot or eudicot, it would NOT help to look at the ___.

• number of seed leaves, or cotyledons, present in its seeds

• shape of its root system

• arrangement of vascular bundles in its stem

• size of the plant

Which of the following is a characteristic of dicotyledons?

• Seeds have one cotyledon

• Vascular bundles are scattered

• Leaves have parallel veins

• Flower parts are in multiples of four or five

Wide branching leaves in veins

• Monocot

• Dicot

Vascular tubes are scattered

• Monocot

• Dicot

Vascular tubes arranged in circles/rings

• Monocots

• Dicots

Flower petals in multiples of three

• Monocot

• Dicot

Flower petals in multiples of four or five

• Monocots

• Dicots