3. What are the main
morphological differences
between monocot plants and
dicot plants?

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The main differentiation criteria
monocots and dicots are: of
cotyledons (seed leaf) seeds, one in
monocots two in dicots; pattern
leaf veins, parallel in ,
reticulated in dicots; multiplicity petal
number, multiples of in monocots,
multiples of or five in dicots;
of vascular bundles in stem,
scattered in monocots,
ringed in dicots.

Grasses, tree, sugar cane,
orchids examples of monocots.
Sunflowers, and water lilies are
of dicots.