Read the following statements related to maize seed.
a) Seed coat is membranous and generally not fused with fruit wall.
b) Endosperm is bulky and store food.
c) Outer covering of endosperm separates the embryo by a aleurone layer.
d) The embryo is large and situated in a groove at one end of the endosperm.
e) Embryo consists of scutellum and long axis with a plumule and radicle.
f) The plumule is protected in a sheath called coleoptile and radicle is protected in a sheath coleorrhiza.
How many statements are correct?

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In maize, the seed coat is membranous and generally fused with the fruit wall.

The embryo is small and situated in a groove at one end of the endosperm.

Embryo consists of one large and shield shaped cotyledon known as scutellum and a short axis with a plumule and a radicle.

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