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Sure, let's break down each line based on your pointers:

1. **Dicotyledonous Plants:**
- Majority show direct elongation of radicle leading to primary root formation.
- Primary root grows into the soil.
- Lateral roots of several orders develop, known as secondary, tertiary, etc. roots.
- Primary root and its branches form tap root system (e.g., mustard plant).

2. **Monocotyledonous Plants:**
- Primary root is short-lived.
- Replaced by numerous roots originating from stem base.
- Forms fibrous root system (e.g., wheat plant).

3. **Adventitious Roots:**
- Roots arise from parts other than radicle.
- Found in plants like grass, Monstera, and banyan tree.
- Called adventitious roots (e.g., Monstera and banyan tree).

4. **Functions of Root System:**


- Absorption of water and minerals from soil.
- Anchorage for plant parts.
- Storage of reserve food material.
- Synthesis of plant growth regulators.

Here's a breakdown based on your pointers:

1. **Root Cap:**
- Thimble-like structure covering the apex of the root.
- Protects the delicate tip of the root during its penetration through the soil.

2. **Region of Meristematic Activity:**


- Located a few millimeters above the root cap.
- Cells are small, thin-walled, and have dense protoplasm.
- These cells undergo repeated divisions, contributing to root growth.

3. **Region of Elongation:**
- Proximal to the meristematic region.
- Cells here undergo rapid elongation and enlargement, leading to root lengthening.

4. **Region of Maturation:**
- Proximal to the elongation zone.
- Cells gradually differentiate and mature.

5. **Root Hairs:**
- Fine, delicate, thread-like structures originating from epidermal cells in the maturation zone.
- Responsible for absorption of water and minerals from the soil.

1. **Definition and Position:**


- Stem is the ascending part of the axis.
- It bears branches, leaves, flowers, and fruits.
- Develops from the plumule of the embryo in a germinating seed.

2. **Structural Features:**
- Bears nodes (where leaves are born) and internodes (portions between
nodes).
- Bears buds, which can be terminal or axillary.
- Initially green when young, may become woody and dark brown later.

3. **Functions:**
- Spreads out branches bearing leaves, flowers, and fruits.
- Conducts water, minerals, and photosynthates (products of photosynthesis).
- Some stems store food, provide support, offer protection, and enable vegetative propagation.

Definition and Position:

• Leaf is a lateral, flattened structure on the stem.


• Develops at the node and bears a bud in its axil.
• Axillary bud develops into a branch.
2. Origination and Arrangement:

• Originates from shoot apical meristems.


• Arranged in an acropetal order (towards the apex).
3. Structural Parts:

• Consists of leaf base, petiole, and lamina.


• Leaf base attaches to the stem, may bear stipules.
• In monocots, leaf base may form a sheath.
• Some plants have swollen leaf bases called pulvinus.
• Petiole helps hold the blade to light and aids in fluttering.
• Lamina or leaf blade is the green expanded part with veins and veinlets.
4. Veins and Veinlets:

• Prominent midrib runs through the center.


• Veins provide rigidity and transport water, minerals, and food materials.
5. Variations in Lamina:

• Shape, margin, apex, surface, and incision extent vary in different leaves.

Venation Definition:

• Arrangement of veins and veinlets in the leaf lamina.


2. Types of Venation:

• Reticulate Venation:
• Veinlets form a network.
• Typical of dicotyledonous plants.
• Parallel Venation:
• Veins run parallel to each other within the lamina.
• Characteristic of most monocotyledons.

Simple Leaves:

• Lamina is entire or incisions don't reach the midrib.


• Incisions, if present, do not touch the midrib.
• Bud present in the axil of petiole.
2. Compound Leaves:

• Lamina incisions reach the midrib, dividing it into leaflets.


• Bud present in the axil of petiole, but not in the axil of leaflets.
3. Types of Compound Leaves:

• Pinnately Compound:
• Leaflets arranged along a common axis (rachis), resembling midrib.
• Example: neem.
• Palmately Compound:
• Leaflets attached at a common point, typically at the tip of the petiole.
• Example: silk cotton.

Phyllotaxy Definition:

• Pattern of leaf arrangement on the stem or branch.


2. Types of Phyllotaxy:

• Alternate:
• Single leaf arises at each node alternately.
• Example: china rose, mustard, sunflower.
• Opposite:
• A pair of leaves arises at each node, opposite to each other.
• Example: Calotropis, guava.
• Whorled:
• More than two leaves arise at a node, forming a whorl.
• Example: Alstonia.

Flower as a Modified Shoot:

• Shoot apical meristem changes to floral meristem.


• Internodes do not elongate, and the axis becomes condensed.
• Floral appendages develop laterally at successive nodes instead of leaves.
• When a shoot tip transforms into a flower, it is always solitary.
2. Inflorescence Definition:

• Arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.


3. Types of Inflorescences:

• Racemose:
• Main axis continues to grow.
• Flowers borne laterally in an acropetal succession.
• Cymose:
• Main axis terminates in a flower, limited in growth.
• Flowers borne in a basipetal order.

Reproductive Function:

• Flower is the reproductive unit in angiosperms.


• Meant for sexual reproduction.
2. Structure of a Flower:

• Four whorls arranged successively on the swollen end of the stalk or pedicel (thalamus/receptacle):
calyx, corolla, androecium, and gynoecium.
• Calyx and corolla are accessory organs; androecium and gynoecium are reproductive organs.
• In some flowers like lily, calyx and corolla are indistinct and termed as perianth.
3. Sexuality and Symmetry:

• Bisexual: Have both androecium and gynoecium.


• Unisexual: Have either stamens or carpels.
• Symmetry:
• Actinomorphic (Radial Symmetry): Divisible into equal radial halves.
• Zygomorphic (Bilateral Symmetry): Divisible into similar halves only in one vertical plane.
• Asymmetric (Irregular): Cannot be divided into similar halves by any vertical plane.
4. Numerical Arrangement and Presence of Bracts:

• Trimerous, tetramerous, or pentamerous based on multiples of 3, 4, or 5, respectively.


• Flowers with bracts are bracteate; without bracts are ebracteate.
5. Position of Floral Organs in Relation to the Ovary:

• Hypogynous: Gynoecium is highest, ovary is superior (e.g., mustard, china rose).


• Perigynous: Gynoecium is in the center, ovary is half-inferior (e.g., plum, rose).
• Epigynous: Ovary is inferior, enclosed by thalamus margin (e.g., guava, cucumber, ray florets of
sunflower).

Parts of a Flower:

• Four floral whorls: calyx, corolla, androecium, and gynoecium.


2. Calyx (5.5.1.1):

• Outermost whorl composed of sepals.


• Sepals are typically green, leaf-like, and protect the flower in bud stage.
• Calyx may be gamosepalous (sepals united) or polysepalous (sepals free).
3. Corolla (5.5.1.2):

• Composed of petals.
• Petals are often brightly colored to attract pollinators.
• Corolla may be gamopetalous (petals united) or polypetalous (petals free).
• Shapes and colors of corolla vary greatly among plants.
4. Aestivation:

• Arrangement of sepals or petals in the floral bud relative to other members of the same whorl.
• Types of aestivation: valvate, twisted, imbricate, and vexillary.

ndroecium (5.5.1.3):
• Composed of stamens, the male reproductive organs of the flower.
• Each stamen consists of a filament and an anther.
• Anther is usually bilobed, each lobe having two pollen-sacs where pollen grains are produced.
• Sterile stamen is called a staminode.
2. Arrangement and Attachment of Stamens:

• Stamens may be attached to petals (epipetalous) as in brinjal or to the perianth (epiphyllous) as in lily.
• Stamens may be free (polyandrous) or united in varying degrees.
• They may be united into one bundle (monoadelphous) as in china rose, two bundles (diadelphous) as
in pea, or more than two bundles (polyadelphous) as in citrus.
• Filament length variation within a flower may occur, as seen in Salvia and mustard.

Gynoecium (5.5.1.4):

• Female reproductive part of the flower, composed of one or more carpels.


• Each carpel consists of stigma, style, and ovary.
• Ovary is the enlarged basal part, style is the elongated tube connecting ovary to stigma, and stigma is
the receptive surface for pollen grains.
• Ovary bears one or more ovules attached to a placenta.
2. Types of Carpels and Ovaries:

• Apocarpous: Carpels are free (e.g., lotus, rose).


• Syncarpous: Carpels are fused (e.g., mustard, tomato).
3. Placentation:

• Arrangement of ovules within the ovary.


• Types include marginal, axile, parietal, basal, central, and free central.
• Examples include pea (marginal), china rose, tomato (axile), and sunflower (basal).

Definition and Origin:

• Fruit is a characteristic feature of flowering plants, developed from the mature or ripened ovary after
fertilization.
• Parthenocarpic fruit is formed without fertilization of the ovary.
2. Structure of Fruit:

• Generally consists of a wall or pericarp and seeds.


• Pericarp may be dry or fleshy.
• In fleshy fruits, pericarp is differentiated into epicarp (outer), mesocarp (middle), and endocarp
(inner).
3. Types of Fruit:

• Drupe:
• Develops from monocarpellary superior ovaries.
• Typically one-seeded.
• Examples: mango, coconut.
• Mango: Epicarp is thin, mesocarp is fleshy and edible, endocarp is stony.
• Coconut: Mesocarp is fibrous.

**Solanaceae Family Overview:**


- Commonly known as the 'potato family'.
- Widely distributed in tropical, subtropical, and temperate zones.

**Vegetative Characters:**
- Mostly herbs, occasionally shrubs or small trees.
- Stem: Herbaceous, rarely woody, aerial, erect, cylindrical, branched, solid or hollow. Underground stem in potato
(Solanum tuberosum).
- Leaves: Alternate, simple, rarely pinnately compound, without stipules. Exhibits reticulate venation.

**Floral Characters:**
- **Inflorescence:** Solitary, axillary, or cymose.
- **Flower:** Bisexual, actinomorphic.
- **Calyx:** Five sepals, united, persistent, valvate aestivation.
- **Corolla:** Five petals, united, valvate aestivation.
- **Androecium:** Five stamens, epipetalous.
- **Gynoecium:** Bicarpellary, syncarpous; superior ovary, bilocular, axile placentation, with many ovules.

**Fruits and Seeds:**


- **Fruits:** Berry or capsule.
- **Seeds:** Numerous, endospermous.

**Floral Formula:** ⊕

**Economic Importance:**
- Source of food: Tomato, brinjal, potato.
- Spice: Chilli.
- Medicine: Belladonna, ashwagandha.
- Fumigatory: Tobacco.
- Ornamentals: Petunia.

The Solanaceae family includes a diverse range of plants with significant economic importance, serving as sources of
food, spice, medicine, and ornamentals.

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