Why is rice a monocot?

Answer 1

Rice is a member of the grass family and is therefore a monocot, meaning to say that, like all cereal grasses, it germinates with a single cotyledon, or false leaf, that helps to nourish the plant until the true leaves develop.

All other plants, with the exception of the grasses and the sedges, start life with two cotyledons and are called dicots.

Answer 2

because after germination it sprouts only one cotyledon wich resembles a small leaf.

Answer 3

Because it has one cotyledon, parallel venation, scattered vascular bundles, and the grasses usually occur in groups of three or more.

Answer 4

Rice and wheat are monocots.

Answer 5

The rice plant is a monocot.

Answer 6

Rice is monocot. Because it has only one cotyledons

Answer 7

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