You find a plant unfamiliar to you and observe that it has v

You find a plant unfamiliar to you and observe that it has vascular bundles scattered throughout the stem cross section. What do you conclude the plant? It will probably get annual rings of wood. It could be either a young gymnosperm or a dicot. It is probably and herbaceous dicot. It is probably a monocot.

Solution

8.The fourth option is correct. It is probably a monocot.

In monocots,xylem and phloem are organized in vascular bundles scattered throughout the stem.As the plant grows,monocot stems generate new vascular bundles for the new tissue.

In the dicot stem,the vascular bundles are arranged in a ring,with pith concentrated at the core of the stem,rather than being scattered throughout the plant interior.In each vascular bundle,the xylem and phloem are separated by a substance called vascular cambium.As the plant grows,existing bundles grow larger rather than new vascular bundles being generated,as in monocots.