NEET 2015 · Class 12

Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants

The wheat grain has an embryo with one large, shield shaped cotyledon known as

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

The NCERT line that answers it

Verbatim line

In the grass family the cotyledon is called **scutellum** that is situated towards one side (lateral) of the embryonal axis.

Chapter
Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants
Section
1.4.2 Embryo
Page
18
Words matched
20 of 20

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0, emb=0.9499, combined=0.9699). Verified: high — The span explicitly states 'In the grass family the cotyledon is called scutellum' which directly answers the MCQ about wheat grain's shield-shaped cotyledon.

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