Family Relationships

Monocot Characteristics: Corn(Layla)

• A flowering plant having one cotyledon or seed-leaf in the embryo
• In monocot plants, the first shoot that emerges from the ground or from the seed is the epicotyl, from which the first shoots and leaves emerge.
• The radicle aborts, and new roots arise
• Have parallel leaf vine pattern
• Vascular Tissue scattered
• There is no main root
• Pollen grain with one opening
• Floral organs usually in multiples of three

Related Species: orchids, palms, and grain crops: maize, wheat, rice

Dicot Characteristics: Bean(Tommy)

• Has two seed leaves (cotyledons)
• In dicots, the hypocotyl is what appears to be the base stem under the spent withered cotyledons, and the shoot just above that is the epicotyl
• Roots grow from the radical and apical meristem
• Have netlike vein patterns
• Vascular Tissue usually arranged in a ring
• Taproot which is the main root is usually present
• Pollen grain with three openings
• Floral organs usually in multiples of four or five

Related Species: roses, peas, sunflowers and maples.