Identify the incorrect comparison between monocots and dicots in general:
Character | Monocots | Dicots | |
1. | Leaves | Parallel venation | Reticulate venation |
2. | Roots | Primary root of short duration, replaced by adventitial roots forming fibrous or fleshy root systems | Develops from the radicle. Primary root often persists forming strong tap roots and secondary roots |
3. | Plant stem: Vascular bundles | Ring of primary bundles with cambium, differentiated into cortex and stele | Numerous scattered bundles in ground parenchyma, cambium mostly absent, no differentiation between cortical and stelar regions |
4. | Flowers | Parts in threes (trimerous) or multiples of three | Fours (tetramerous) or fives (pentamerous) |
Assertion(A) | Monocotyledonous roots do not undergo any secondary growth. |
Reason (R): | There are usually more than six (polyarch) xylem bundles in the monocot root. |
1. | Both (A) and (R) are True but (R) does not correctly explain the (A). |
2. | (A) is True but (R) is False. |
3. | Both (A) and (R) are True and (R) correctly explains the (A). |
4. | (A) is False but (R) is True. |
I: | Guard cells are dumbbell shaped in dicots |
II: | Initiation of lateral roots and vascular cambium during the secondary growth takes place in pericycle cells in dicot roots. |
1. | Only I | 2. | Only II |
3. | Both I and II | 4. | Neither I nor II |
1. | Presence of a single layer of cortex. |
2. | Radial arrangement of vascular bundles. |
3. | Lack of secondary growth. |
4. | Scattered vascular bundles. |
1. | A single layer of epidermis with root hairs |
2. | A large central pith |
3. | Scattered vascular bundles |
4. | Secondary growth absent |
1. | The center of the stem or root containing xylem, phloem, and pith |
2. | The outer protective layer of the stem or root |
3. | The arrangement of vascular bundles in the leaf |
4. | The terminal part of the root that absorbs water |