Corn is a monocot, and soybeans are dicots, meaning that corn only has one cotyledon and soybeans have two. Cotyledons become the first true leaves of the plant.

How many cotyledons are present in corn seed?

Answer : Cotyledons are defined as the special structure present in seeds of plants which stores food for embryo of a plant. The number of cotyledons present in maize (corn) seed is 1.

Where is the cotyledon in corn?

Whereas dicotyledons have two cotyledons enclosed in the seed to provide initial nutrition to the embryo and often emerge to also produce more nutrition via photosynthesis, the single cotyledon of grasses such as corn, remain in the soil with the submerged seed. This cotyledon is called the scutellum.