Cut a transverse section of young stem of a plant from your school garden and observe it under the microscope. How would you ascertain whether it is a monocot stem or a dicot stem? Give reasons.
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Cut a transverse section of young stem of a plant from your school garden and observe it under the microscope. How would you ascertain whether it is a monocot stem or a dicot stem? Give reasons.
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If you see scattered, several vascular bundles
with sclerenchymatous bundle sheath,
undifferentiated ground tissue and no pith is
there, then it is the transverse section is of a
monocot stem.
If the section has vascular bundles arranged in a
ring, differentiated ground tissue into cortex,
endodermis, pericycle and pith, then the section
is of dicot stem.