Tuesday, January 22, 2013

big idea 1

Monocot vs Dicot: another difference is that monocots have a taproot system. Taproots are usually a single  large vertically-down root that then branches off to smaller horizontal roots. Dicots have a fibrous root system, which has many small horizontally branched roots. Here is the taproots of grass (a monocot)

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