Monocotyledons

• It only has one seed leaf.
• New roots arise from aborted radicles.
• The first shoot that emerges from monocot plants is  epicotyl, this is where the first leaves and shoots emerge.
• Monocots have a distinctive arrangement of vascular tissue known as an atactostele in which the vascular tissue is scattered rather than arranged in concentric rings. 

Dicotyledons

• They have two seed leaves.
• Their roots grow from apical meristem  and the radicle.
• Many dicots have epigeal emergence. This is where the hypocotyl elongates and becomes arched in the soil.
• In dicots, the hypocotyl  appears to be the base under the spent withered cotyledons, and the shoot just above that is the epicotyl. 

Monocot Species- corn, rice, cane and grass



Dicot Species-   bean, grapes, tomatoes, and strawberries.