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Q.Draw and label the parts of cut opened dicot seed.
Puducherry TnboardTamil Nadu HSC (DGE) Board 2024Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★
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Start your 14-day free trial to unlock the full solution →A cut-open dicot seed shows the seed coat, hilum, micropyle, and an embryo with plumule, radicle and two cotyledons.
Since a diagram cannot be drawn here, the structure of a cut-open dicot seed (typical example: bean, gram or pea, a non-endospermic/exalbuminous dicot seed) is described part by part, as it would appear labelled in the diagram.
- Seed coat: the protective outer covering of the seed, made of two layers -- the outer, thicker testa, and the inner, thin, membranous tegmen.
- Hilum: a small, oval scar on the seed coat marking the point where the seed was attached to the fruit wall (funicle/stalk) before it separated.
- Micropyle: a minute pore located close to the hilum; it is the opening through which the pollen tube had originally entered the ovule, and later serves as the point through which water is absorbed into the seed during germination.
- Embryo: located inside, consisting of an embryonal axis with two ends -- the plumule, the young shoot/stem tip at the upper end (pointing toward the micropylar side), which develops into the shoot system, and the radicle, the young root tip at the lower end, which develops into the root system on germination. …
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