Name: Verano, Colleen Grace N.

Date: September 8, 2021

Section: PM 102 Score:
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REPORT SHEET
Experiment No. 2
The Body of Plants

I. DATA AND RESULTS: (Whole Plant)

1. Tomato
Scientific name: Solanum pyscopersicum

2. Rice
Scientific name: Oryza sativa

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B. Fill in the table with observation details.

1. Root System
MONOCOT DICOT
-FIBROUS ROOTED -HAS TAP ROOTS

2. Leaves
MONOCOT DICOT
-PARALLEL VEINS -NETTED VEINS

3. Stems
MONOCOT DICOT
-VASCULAR BUNDLES ARE ON THE EDGE -HAS EPIDERMIS
OF THE STEM -ARRANGED IN A RING
-SCATTERED

4. Flowers
MONOCOT DICOT
-FLOWER PARTS ARE IN THREE -FLOWER PARTS ARE FOUR OR FIVE IN
NUMBER

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II. OBSERVATIONS:
I have observed that monocot plants are missing vascular cambium where its primary roots are
not thickened by secondary growth that’s why it is slender and fibrous-rooted. I also noticed
that the petals of monocot plants are only three to four and never five and above. Dicot plants
usually have four to five plant parts. Gymnosperms have its seeds without coat while
angiosperms have.

III. CONCLUSION:
I conclude that not all plants have flowers and they can reproduce through other means like the
spreading of its spores in gymnosperms. Flowering plants also need pollinators for them to
reproduce fruits and seeds. Also, there are a lot of differences in monocot and dicot plants
regarding their physical structures like their leaves; monocot plants’ leaves are parallel while
dicots’ are netted. Monocot plants are fibrous-rooted, while dicot plants are tap-rooted.
Examples of monocot plants are garlic and ginger. Examples of dicot plants are potatoes and
tomatoes. Examples of gymnosperms are conifers and cycads. Angiosperms are fruits and
vegetables.

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IV. ANSWERS TO RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
Describe the general characteristics of monocot and dicot plants.
Monocot plants have parallel veins and its roots are missing a typical vascular cambium. They
also have a single cotyledon and the vascular bundles in its stem are scattered. Its roots are
fibrous-rooted and they can also grow in rivers, seashores, and lakes. Dicot plants on the
other hand, are tap-rooted. They have four to five flower parts and its leaves are net-veined.
The stem vessels’ arrangement is in a continuous ring and these plants have two cotyledons.

Differentiate flowering from non-flowering plants.

Flowering plants are also called angiosperms where they grow out flowers to reproduce
fruits. The seeds are formed in the ovaries in the flower. With these plants having flowers and
producing fruits, their seeds can be dispersed by humans or animals and it can continue
growing out in this world. Non-flowering plants do not have flowers for them to reproduce so
they reproduce by spores and strobili. They are also called gymnosperms.

Discuss the advantage of seed production to a flowering plant.

The seeds of a flowering plants have a protective coat and it can grow once it is in the soil
with proper amount of sunlight and water. Because of its coat, the embryo I protected and it
can survive for long until it can grow out. When we open a fruit or vegetable, we notice that
the number of seeds are many meaning it can grow in large numbers. Also, with animals and
us humans, the spreading of seeds are easy and plants can reproduce freely and easily.

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V. REFERENCES:
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (Invalid Date). Monocotyledon. Encyclopedia Britannica.
https://www.britannica.com/plant/monocotyledon
Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (Invalid Date). Dicotyledon. Encyclopedia Britannica.
https://www.britannica.com/plant/dicotyledon

Flowering Plants. (2021, March 6). Retrieved September 9, 2021, from

https://bio.libretexts.org/@go/page/6641

https://gardenerdy.com/flowering-plants-vs-non-flowering-plants/