Question

You need to identify a plant, but it is winter and the leaves have fallen to the ground and mixed with leaves from other plants. The parts of flowers, fruits, and seed leaves of germinating seeds are not available either. Your best clue to identify the plants as a monocot or a eudicot is to:________.A. cut the stem and if the vascular bundles are scattered in the stem, it is a monocot.B. determine if there are parallel xylem tubes in the stem to identify it as a monocot.C. inspect the stem for woody bark, as only eudicots have woody tissue.D. cut the stem and if the vascular bundles are in a distinct ring, it is a monocot.E. determine if the roots lack phloem and xylem to identify it as a monocot.

Answer 1

Answer is A. cut the stem and if the vascular bundles are scattered in the stem, it is a monocot.

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Step-by-step explanation:

You need to identify a plant, but it is winter and the leaves have fallen to the ground and mixed with leaves from other plants. The parts of flowers, fruits, and seed leaves of germinating seeds are not available either. Your best clue to identify the plants as a monocot or a eudicot is to:

cut the stem and if the vascular bundles are scattered in the stem, it is a monocot.

Answer 2

Answer: A.

Explanation: To identify if the stem is monocot or eudicot, when the stem is cut and the vascular bundles are scattered then it is monocot stem but if the vascular bundles are in a definite shape in which it forms one or two broken rings then it is a eudicot stem.