Seed
Seed: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Plant Embryo, Endospermous Seed, Non-endospermous Seed, Aleurone Layer, Scutellum, Coleoptile, Coleorhiza, Seed, Endosperm, Structure of a Dicot Seed, Structure of a Monocot Seed, Hilum & Micropyle etc.
Important Questions on Seed
In which one of the following would you expect to find glyoxysomes?
Identify the incorrect statement about coleorhiza.
The coleorhiza is the first part to grow out of the monocot seed.
Coleoptile and coleorhiza are the layers of the sheath emerging from monocot seeds. They occur in the seed before the _____ of the seed.
Write about the covering enclosing the radicle of a monocotyledon seed.
The micropyle is a scar on the seed coat through which the developing seeds are attached to the fruit.
What is the pore on the seed coat through which pollen enters the ovule for fertilisation?
What is the micropyle of a plant ovary? What are its role in a plant?
Identify the structure that is absent in dicot seeds.
The coleoptile is a rigid piece of plant tissue that encloses the plumule of the mango seedling.
A sheath protecting a young shoot tip in a grass or cereal is _____.
What is the nutritive tissue of the seed?
On the basis of endosperm, seeds are classified as:
Identify the correct match for the Bean seed from the given options:
Identify the correct match for the mango seed from the given options:
Cotyledons in castor are a big store of food.
Operculum is present in the majority of the dicot plants.
