Refer to the scenario below, and then answer the following question(s).
A friend of yours finds a plastic bag containing what appear to be similar seeds collected last year during a vacation hiking trip. Your friend isn't quite sure which plant he collected them from. You open the seed with a sharp knife, examine the inside, and ask him if it was a non-woody plant with narrow leaves. Now recalling the plant, and astonished by your "detective work," he says, "Yes! How did you know?" Your friend then presents several pressed flowers and states that one of the flowers was from the plant from which he collected the seeds, but he isn't exactly sure which one. You examine the petals and sepals of each flower. The first flower has six parts, the second has five parts, and the third has eight parts.
-How did you know by examining the seed that it was a non-woody plant with narrow leaves?

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Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The presence of one cotyledon in the seed indicates that it belongs to a monocot plant, which are typically non-woody and have narrow leaves. Dicot plants, on the other hand, have two cotyledons and can be woody or herbaceous with a variety of leaf shapes.

Refer to the Scenario Below, and Then Answer the Following