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Q.Draw and label a cut opened Dicot seed.

Tamil Nadu DgeTamil Nadu HSC (DGE) Board 2026Subjective· 2mImportance★★★★★
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A cut-open dicot seed shows the seed coat, hilum, micropyle, and an embryo with a plumule-radicle axis held between two food-storing cotyledons.

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Since a diagram cannot be physically drawn here, the structure of a cut-open (longitudinal-section) dicot seed -- typically illustrated using a non-endospermic (exalbuminous) example such as bean, gram or pea -- is described part by part, exactly as it would be labelled in the diagram:

  1. Seed coat: the tough, protective outer covering of the seed, differentiated into two layers -- the outer, thicker testa, and the inner, thin, papery tegmen.
  2. Hilum: a small oval scar on the seed coat, marking the exact point where the seed had been attached, via its stalk (funicle), to the fruit wall before separating from it.
  3. Micropyle: a minute pore situated close to the hilum; originally the passage through which the pollen tube entered the ovule during fertilisation, it later becomes the point through which water is absorbed into the seed at the start of germination.
  4. Embryo: occupying the interior of the seed, made up of an embryonal axis connecting two ends -- the plumule (the young shoot tip, positioned toward the micropylar end), which develops into the shoot system on germination, and the radicle (the young root tip, at the opposite end), which develops into the root system. …

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