Tag: angiosperms

Species of wheat belongs to genus Triticum. Wheat is a type of food crop. Wheat has seeds which as used as food to human beings. Angiosperms include seed containing plants.

According to Richard Y-wettstein (Gnetales-angiosperms theory), Gnetales and angiosperms are closely related to each other, because of morphological similarities in the flowers of Gnetum and pro-angiosperms and thus might have originated from common ancestors.

The process in which both nuclei from the pollen tube fuse is referred to as double fertilization. This is perhaps the most characteristic single feature of angiosperms and is not shared with any other group. Gymnosperms, in sharp contrast, have a multicellular female gametophyte, that consists of many hundreds or even thousands of cells. Double fertilization does not take place in this case, and the female gametophyte develops into the food-storage tissue of the seed.

Angiosperms or flowering plants are those plants in which seeds are formed inside fruits and the sporophylls are organised into flowers. They are the most recently and highly evolved plants appeared on Earth about 130 million years ago. The plant body is differentiated into root, stem and leaves. At maturity the plants bear flowers, which produces fruits and seeds. The vascular tissues are arranged in the form of vascular bundles. Xylem contains vessels and phloem has sieve tubes and companion cells. 

Characteristics of monocot :-
1) Roots are adventitious
2) Embryo has single cotyledon
3) Pollens have single pore
4) Secondary growth is absent
5) Flower has parts in multiples of three
6) Leaf veins are parallel
7) Seeds possess one cotyledon
8) Vascular bundles appear to scatter through the stem cross-section
Botanical name of Amla is Phyllanthus emblica.

An angiospermic dicot seeds has a protective seed around it. It is made up of 2 cotyledons. The outer seed coat is called testa and inner seed coat is called tegmen. It's embryonic axis has 3 parts, plumule, radicle and hypocotyl.