Is an orange monocot or dicot and why?

Answer 1

Simplified, monocots are simple plants that grow from the base, such as grass. More evolved plants have growth points at their extremes and grow from there. Most plants that we know from our daily lives are dicots. All trees are definitely dicots. Oranges are thus dicots.

i beg to differ, while i agree that indeed all trees oranges included are dicots that does not mean in any way that monocots are simple less evolved plant. on the contarary, monocots have evolved FROM dicots several separate times indicating that from an evolutionary point of view they are more evolved. the concept that the more complex an organism is the more evolved it is is false and is derived from the false point of view that humans, being very complex, are the most evolved organism which is frankly plain rubbish.