Question

A student was shown two slides of a plant tissue and was asked to identify the slide of sclerenchyma. The correct identifying feature given by the student is ______.

Options

• spherical thin-walled cells

• polygonal cells with conspicuous nucleus

• elongated cells with thick walls and no nucleus

• all of these

Answer 1

A student was shown two slides of a plant tissue and was asked to identify the slide of sclerenchyma. The correct identifying feature given by the student is elongated cells with thick walls and no nucleus.

Explanation:

Sclerenchyma consists of dead cells with thick, lignified walls and no nucleus. Thin-walled cells or cells with a conspicuous nucleus are not characteristic of mature sclerenchyma.