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The plant uses up the nutrients stored in the cotyledons, they become smaller and eventually drop off once the plant is able to produce food for its self

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Q: Why cotyledon becomes smaller when a bean seed germinates?
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Which germinates faster a small lima bean or a large bean?

small


How many cotyledon does bean have?

2


What are the three main parts to a bean?

The main parts of a bean are inside the seed coat, these are the endosperm, cotyledon, and the hypocotyl. The endosperm surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch. The cotyledon is the significant part of the embryo within the seed of the been. It becomes the first leaves of a seedling upon germination. The hypocotyl is the stem of the germinating seedling found below the cotyledon.


State the difference between what happens to a corn seed coat and to a bean seed coat at germination?

The difference is that the bean seed germinates by dicots and the corn seed germinates by monocots.


Is a bean a seedless plant or a seed plant or both?

A bean is a young seedling. What you see on the outside is the seed coat, but there is another inner layer surrounding the seed called the cotyledon. Inside the cotyledon is the young roots and stems that later become a plant. As the plant starts its journey of growth, the cotyledon becomes food because a plant in its first few days cannot collect its own food.


What does the cotyledon in a lima bean do?

it stores food for the embryo


Which is bigger in a Lima bean seed the endosperm or the cotyledon?

neither


What a lima bean has in it?

the radical embryo the cotyledon and the seed coat


Examples of one cotyledon AND two cotyledon seeds?

a dicot... that's a type of angiosperm


Why the cotyledon is not needed once the bean plant matures?

Because the bean plant reserves its own food


Why is the cotyledon not needed once the bean plant matures?

Because the bean plant reserves its own food


Which embryonic structure supplies nutrients to a germinating bean plant?

The Cotyledon