monocot vs dicot
Monocot Vs. Dicot
The following article presents before us monocot vs. dicot differences by considering their various features. Read on to known more about dicotyledon and monocotyledon classifications.
- Monocots: These plants bear flowers that are trimerous, i.e., they are divided in 3 parts/components. Dicots: Flowers of dicotyledonous plants produce tetramerous or pentamerous flowers.
- Monocots: The arrangement of vascular bundles in these plants is of a 'scattered' type. Dicots: In dicotyledons, vascular bundles are arranged in concentric circles.
- Monocots: The roots of such plants are adventitious. Dicots: Development of root system in these plants, unlike the monocots, takes place from radicles.
- Monocots: The difference between monocots and dicots can also be marked on the basis of number of pores/furrows present in a single pollen. Monocots are those plants which possess a single pore in every pollen grain. Dicots: In dicotyledonous plants, there are 3 pores present in a single pollen grain.
- Monocots: The arrangement of major veins in these plants is parallel in form. Dicots: The dicot plants have reticulate major veins.
- Monocots: The monocot seed pods are divided in three parts. Seeds present in pods of these plants are fleshy and large in size. Dicots: The dicotyledons have seed pods that vary in shape and size. The number of parts/chambers containing seeds also vary in number.