While observing a slide of a plant tissue under a microscope, a student noticed skull-shaped vascular bundles. It can be said that the observed slide is a transverse section of
A
monocot stem
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B
dicot stem
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C
dicot root
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D
monocot leaf
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Solution
The correct option is A monocot stem Skull shaped vascular bundles are seen in the transverse section of the monocot stem. The xylem vessels are V or Y shaped. The protoxylem disintegrates forming protoxylem lacuna. Due to this, the vascular bundles appear skull-shaped.