Question

What are the external characters (monocots and dicots) that can be used for
identifying plants?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

You can easily identify plant is monocot or dicot by observing external morphological characters like…

Seed :- You can't see inside a seed, but as Soon as it germinates, you can tell if a plant is a monocot or a dicot. A monocot has only one seed leaf (monocot is short for 'monocotyledon'. A cotyledon is a seed leaf, and 'mono' means one). ... A dicot has two cotyledons (dicot is short for 'dicotyledon', and 'di' means two).

Leaf :- if plant is dicot leaf venation is reticulted or branched and if plant is monocot leaf venation is parallel you can see in above image.

Flower:- in dicot petals in multiple of four or five means tetramerous or pentamerous and if plant is monocot petals is in multiple of three.

Presence or absence of wood:-dicots are herbaceous or woody monocots usually herbaceous

Root system:- in case of dicot taproot system where as in monocot fibrous root system