Question

What are cotyledons? How are the number of cotyledons different in gram seed and the maize (com) seed?(All India - 2012)

Answer 1

Answer:1.

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an embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first leaves to appear from a germinating seed.

2.

a succulent plant of the stonecrop family, some kinds of which are grown as ornamentals.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:

The main difference between cotyledon and endosperm is that cotyledon is the embryonic leaf of the seed, which develops into first leaves of the embryonic plant and endosperm is the nutritive tissue, which stores nutrients required by the development of embryo during seedling.