Soak a few seeds of wheat, maize, chickpeas, ground nuts in water. Keep it overnight. Now split the seeds and observe the various parts of embryo and seed.

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$Observation of soaked maize and wheat seeds$

Wheat and maize seeds are monocotyledons as they have only one cotyledon. Hence, the seeds do not get splitted into two parts.

Beside this, the endosperm of maize seeds will be clearly visible.

Following are the figures of monocot embryo and seed:

$Observation of soaked chickpeas, ground nuts seeds$

Seeds of chickpeas and ground nuts are dicotyledonous as they have two cotyledons. Thus, these seeds get splitted into two parts after overnight soaking. Also, the seed coat is easily removable.

Following are the figures of dicot embryo and seed:

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