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Number nine is asking us a multiple choice question.
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Monocot stems have, and then it's asking for that defining feature.
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So the answer to number nine is c, scattered vascular bundles.
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Monocot stems have a more chaotic distribution of their bundled vascular tissue.
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To understand that a little bit better, let's look at dicot stems first.
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We're going to make that black, though.
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And to represent our vascular bundles, we're going to use a couple of colors.
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Keep it simple.
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Our green is going to represent our phloem, and our orange is going to represent our xylem.
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In dicot stems and in monocot stems, you've got your ground tissue, but within your ground tissue and dicot stems, you have a ring made up of your vascular tissue.
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So your vascular bundles are in a nice, organized ring around the center, which means your pith is very clearly defined right in the middle.
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This allows for a lot more rigidity in the stem...