Question

Are bananas monocots or dicots?

Answer 1

Monocots:

1. Monocots refer to plants in which seeds have a single embryonic leaf or cotyledon.
2. Example: maize, rice.

Dicots:

1. The seeds of a dicot plant possess two cotyledons.
2. Example: legumes, sunflower.

Bananas:

1. Bananas are monocots since their seed contains only one cotyledon.
2. Like monocots, their leaves are marked by the presence of parallel veins.
3. They have a fibrous root system.
4. The vascular bundles are typically arranged in a complex manner and lack cambium.