NEET 2006 · Class 11

Morphology of Flowering Plants

[DIAGRAM: A longitudinal section of a corn grain showing fused pericarp and seed coat, endosperm, aleurone layer, coleoptile, plumule, cotyledon (scutellum), radicle, and coleorhiza.] In a cereal grain the single cotyledon of embryo is represented by

  1. (A)coleoptile
  2. (B)coleorhiza
  3. (C)scutellum
  4. (D)prophyl.

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It consists of one large and shield shaped cotyledon known as **scutellum** and a short axis with a **plumule** and a **radicle**.

Chapter
Morphology of Flowering Plants
Section
5.7 THE SEED
Page
12
Words matched
22 of 22

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0, emb=1.0, combined=1.0). Verified: high — The span explicitly states that the embryo's single cotyledon is called the scutellum, which directly answers the MCQ about the representation of the cotyledon in a cereal grain.

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