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What Are the Functions of Root?

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प्रश्न

What are the functions of root?
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उत्तर

(i) Roots help in the absorption of water.
(ii) They also help in the absorption of minerals.

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पाठ 4: Absorption by Roots - Exercises [पृष्ठ ५५]

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फ्रँक Biology Part 2 [English] Class 10 ICSE
पाठ 4 Absorption by Roots
Exercises | Q 16. | पृष्ठ ५५

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संबंधित प्रश्‍न

State whether the following statement is true or false. Rewrite the false statement correctly.

Water absorption mainly occurs through the root-hair.


What part is played by The cytoplasm in the uptake of water into the root hair?


The apparatus arranged alongside signifies an important process.
(i) Name the process.
(ii) Where does this process occur in plants?
(iii) What solution is placed inside the dialysis tubing?
(iv) What happens to the level of the solution in the capillary tube?


The figure shows a diagrammatic representation of the movement of certain substances inside the stem of a certain plant. Write five sentences on whatever you can explain about the processes or the arrangement of structures indicated in the diagram.
Note: - Each sentence must include one or more of the following four words, and each word can be used several times. Xylem, phloem, roots, leaves.


The diagram given below represents the results of an experiment conducted on two freshly taken leafy shoots of a herbaceous plant. The lower ends of the shoots dip in ordinary water.
(i) What is the aim of the experiment?
(ii) Some parts of the stem in both the shoots have been removed. Name the conducting tissue in shoot (a) and in shoot (b) that has been removed.
(iii) What are the results of this experiment?


The diagram below represents a layer of epidermal cells showing a fully grown root hair. Study the diagram and answer the questions that follow:

Draw a diagram of the above root hair cell as it would appear when a concentrated solution of fertilizers is added near it.


Differentiate between the following
Permeable and Semi-permeable membrane.


The figure given below is a diagrammatic representation of a part of the cross-section of the root in the root hair zone. Study the same and then answer the questions that follow :

(i) Name the parts indicated by guidelines ‘1’ to ‘5’
(ii) Is the root hair cell unicellular or multi-cellular?
(iii) Draw a labeled diagram of the root hair cell as it would appear if some fertilizer is added to the soil close to it.
(iv) Name the process responsible for the entry of water molecules from the soil into A1 and then A2.
(v) What pressure is responsible for the movement of water in the direction indicated by arrows?
(vi) How is this pressure set up?


Name the following:

The solution outside the cell having lower solute concentration than the fluids.


Define: Root hair


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