Monocotyledonous plants have _____________ roots.
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Fibrous roots
Monocot plants are marked by seeds with a single cotyledon, parallel-veined leaves, scattered vascular bundles in the stem, the absence of a typical cambium, and an adventitious root system.
The roots are all slender, and the plant is said to be fibrous-rooted.
Monocotyledonous plants have fibrous roots.
Explanation:
1. Those plants where the seed has only one cotyledon are monocots or monocotyledonous.
2. Such plants have fibrous kind of roots in them. Normally, in other plants we can see that roots arises or develops from radicle. But the fibrous roots do not develop from the radicle.
3. Instead of arising from the radicle, the fibrous roots arises or originates or comes out from the base of the plant's stem.
4. Example of a plant which has this fibrous root is Wheat.
5. In wheat, we can see that, the primary root which comes out in the beginning does not live for long time. It has very short life span and afterwards it is replaced by fibrous roots.
6. Extra information: The dicot plants have different roots called tap roots.
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