Botany - Anatomy of Flowering Plants Question with Solution | TestHub
Read the following characteristics (I-V) and identify the structure to which these features correspond.
I. Cortex is made up of several layers of thin-walled parenchyma cells with intercellular spaces.
II. Endoderm is made up of a single layer of barrel-shaped cells without any intercellular spaces.
III. Few layers of thick-walled parenchymatous cell forms pericycle.
IV. Pith is small or inconspicuous.
V. Conjunctive tissue present, and 2 to 4 xylem and phloem patches.
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Dicot root differs from monocot root in few features like, in dicot root 2 to 4 xylem and phloem patches are present and pith is small and inconspicuous, whereas in monocot root there are more than six xylem bundle and pith is large. Vascular bundles are radial and the xylem is exarch in both monocot and dicot root.
