Question

All different types of dals are made from which types of seeds?
A. Monocot
B. Dicot
C. Both dicot and monocot
D. None of them

Answer 1

Hint:- Angiosperms are large groups of plants occurring in a wide range of habitats. In these plants, seeds are enclosed by fruits, unlike gymnosperms. Foods, fooder, fuel, medicine, and many commercially important things can be obtained from these plants. In the angiosperms, unlike gymnosperms, the pollen grains, and the ovules are developed in specialized structures called “flowers.” Thus, angiosperms are also called as Flowering plants.

Complete step-by-step solution:-
● Angiosperms are divided into two groups namely — Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons based
on the number of cotyledons present inside the embryo.
● During the development of the embryo, the embryonic leaf like structures are developed within
the germinating seed of a plant. These are called cotyledons.
● In dicots, two cotyledons are developing laterally to the embryonal axis and in monocots, only
one cotyledon is formed, and the other one is reduced, and gets degenerated.
● Cotyledons are considered as food reserves for the developing seed as they contain large
amounts of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates the pulses obtained are categorized under the
Dicots like pea, gram, soya bean, etc.
● Thus, they contain large storage of food reserves in them.
● In contrast cotyledon monocots contain less amount of storage reserves.
● All the cereals are included in monocots like wheat, rice, maize, etc.
● Monocots generally present a shield-shaped cotyledon along with a reduced or degenerated
remnant of other cotyledons.
Thus the correct answer is option B.

Note:- Along with food reabsorption cotyledons are responsible for absorbing nutrients from the environment until the plant can photosynthesize its own nutrients. Mature seeds may be non-albuminous or albuminous. Non-albuminous seeds have no residual endosperm as it is completely consumed during embryonic development. In albuminous seeds, the endosperm is not completely consumed and thus it is retained.