Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Dicot

A dicot is a group of flowering plants belonging to the class Magnoliopsida of angiosperms, characterized as by having two cotyledons in the seed that may emerge from the ground when it is germinated. Dicots usually have floral parts in multiples of four or five and have their vascular system with the xylem and phloem in the steam. The ring of phloem is near the bark and the xylem forms the inner ring. A dicot usually has net-veined leaves like in this picture and that is why this picture represents a dicot because of its net-veined leaves.

Source:
Dicot. (July 13, 2009). biology-online.org. Retrieved on August 30, 2011, from
http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Dicot

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