Monocots and Dicots

Monocots and Dicots are categories of

• All plant types

• Flowering plants

• All living things

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Dicots typically have the following feature which is different to Monocots

• Root hairs

• fibrous roots

• tap roots

• died roots

Monocots typically have the following type of veins

• Parallel

• Branching

• Capillaries

• Varicose

Examine this seed. Would you expect it to produce a dicot or monocot plant?

• monocot
• dicot
• Neither
• Cotyledon

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Identify the type of vascular bundles (inside look of stem) as a dicot or monocot.

• monocot
• dicot
• Neither
• Both

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Why is the flower in the picture classified as a dicot?

• A.  The petals are arranged in 3 or groups of 3.
• B.  The petals are arranged in 4 or 5 or groups of 4 or 5.
• C.  The leaves have webbed, scattered or branching veins
• D.  Both B and C

Examine the leaf. Would you expect this plant to be classified as a dicot or monocot?

• monocot
• dicot
• Neither
• Both

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What type of seed leaf would you expect this flower to have?

• one cotyledon
• two cotyledon
• three cotyledon
• unlimited cotyledon

Flowering plants are also known as ...

• Angiosperms

• Gymnosperms

• Nonvacular plants

• Seedless vascular plants

Monocots have all of the following except...

• Flowers with petals in multiples of 3

• Scattered vascular tissue

• Parallel veins on their leaves

• Taproots