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In the embryos of a typical dicot and a grass, true homologous structures are:

The embryos of typical dicot, consists of an embryonal axis and two cotyledons.


Embryos of monocotyledons consists only one cotyledon. And this cotyledon is called scutellum in grass family.


Coleorhiza is a sheath protecting the root of a germinating grass or cereal grain.


Coleoptile is a sheath protecting a young shoot tip in a grass or cereal.


The cylindrical portion below the level of cotyledons is hypocotyl that terminates at its lower end in the radical or root tip.


So the correct answer is option (c).

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