The identifying features of the embryo of monocotyledons are:

(A). Coleoptile

(B). Root cap enclosed in coleorhiza

(C). Pericarp

(D). One cotyledon

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(A), (B) and (D) only

The correct answer is Option (2) - (A), (B) and (D) only

The embryo in flowering plants develops at the micropylar end of the embryo sac, where the zygote is located. In most cases, the zygote undergoes division only after a certain amount of endosperm, a nutritive tissue, is formed. This adaptation ensures that there is sufficient nutrition available for the developing embryo.Although seeds of different plant species can vary greatly in their structure and size, the early stages of embryo development, known as embryogeny, exhibit similarities between monocotyledons (plants with one seed leaf or cotyledon) and dicotyledons (plants with two seed leaves or cotyledons).

Embryos of monocotyledons  possess only one cotyledon. In the grass family the cotyledon is called scutellum that is situated towards one side (lateral) of the embryonal axis. At its lower end, the embryonal axis has the radical and root cap enclosed in an undifferentiated sheath called coleorrhiza. The portion of the embryonal axis above the level of attachment of scutellum is the epicotyl. Epicotyl has a shoot apex and a few leaf primordia enclosed in a hollow foliar structure, the coleoptile.