What is cotyledons ?

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Cotyledons are the embryonic part of the seeds of flowering plant which upon germination forms the first green leaf. If a plant contains two cotyledonsin the seed then the plant is said to be a dicot plant and if a plant contains only one cotyledons in the seed then it is said to be a monocot plant.

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