Corn, grass, and similar plants that produce a single shoot from a seed are:

Corn, grass, and similar plants that produce a single shoot from a seed are:

• A. Gymnosperms
• B. Monocots
• C. Fungi
• D. Dicots

Answer: (B)

Monocots are plants whose seeds contain one cotyledon, the first leaf that appears when a seed germinates. Corn and grasses fit this group because their seeds sprout with a single seed leaf, and they share other features typical of monocots—parallel leaf veins, a fibrous root system, vascular bundles scattered in the stem, and floral parts usually in threes. This combination of traits distinguishes them from dicots, which have two cotyledons and often net-like leaf venation with a ring of vascular tissue in the stem. Gymnosperms are seed plants with naked seeds and aren’t defined by one cotyledon, and fungi are not seed-bearing plants.

Monocots are plants whose seeds contain one cotyledon, the first leaf that appears when a seed germinates. Corn and grasses fit this group because their seeds sprout with a single seed leaf, and they share other features typical of monocots—parallel leaf veins, a fibrous root system, vascular bundles scattered in the stem, and floral parts usually in threes. This combination of traits distinguishes them from dicots, which have two cotyledons and often net-like leaf venation with a ring of vascular tissue in the stem. Gymnosperms are seed plants with naked seeds and aren’t defined by one cotyledon, and fungi are not seed-bearing plants.