While digging in your vegetable garden, you accidentally slice a thick root in half with your trowel, and find yourself looking at a bold X shape in the middle of the root. What can you say about the plant this root belonged to?

a. It was probably a monocot.
b. It was probably an epiphyte.
c. It was probably a dicot.
d. It was probably a weed.


c. It was probably a dicot.

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