Seed Structure and Embryo Components — NEET Biology
📚 Practice ConceptThe ovules after fertilisation, develop into seeds. A seed is made up of a seed coat and an embryo. The embryo is made up of a radicle, an embryonal axis and one (as in wheat, maize) or two cotyledons (as in gram and pea).
Assertion (A): Plant embryos differ in their cotyledon number. Reason (R): Monocotyledonous plants like wheat and maize have two cotyledons in their embryo.
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Correct answer: C — If assertion is true but reason is false.
The Assertion is true - embryos differ in cotyledon number between plant groups. However, NCERT states “The embryo is made up of a radicle, an embryonal axis and one (as in wheat, maize) or two cotyledons (as in gram and pea).” The Reason incorrectly claims monocots have two cotyledons when they actually have one cotyledon.
What does NCERT say about ovules after fertilisation develop?
Has this concept appeared in NEET?
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176/180MedicNEET's Biology question bank is built from the same NCERT lines NTA picks repeatedly. Not random MCQs — questions crafted exactly like NTA crafts them.