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Question
Given below is an example of a certain structure and its special functional activity:
Chloroplasts and Photosynthesis
In a similar way, write the functional activity against the following:
Lenticels and ______
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Solution
Lenticels and transpiration
RELATED QUESTIONS
The apparatus shown in the following diagram is Garreau’s potometer designed to demonstrate unequal transpiration from the two surfaces of a dorsiventral leaf. Before keeping the leaf in between the cups, anhydrous calcium chloride (CaCl2) contained in two small vials were weighed and placed in both the cups. The ends of the cups were closed with corks through which two mercury manometers were connected. After few hours, CaCl2 vials were taken out and weighed again.
What do you mean by transpiration?
State the functions of guard cells.
Give Reasons for the following:
Guard cells are small in size and are kidney-shaped in outline.
Given below is the diagram of an experimental set up to study the process of transpiration in plants. Study the same and then answer the questions that follow:
(i) What is the colour of dry cobalt chloride paper?
(ii) Is the experimental leaf a monocot or a dicot? Give a reason to support your answer.
(iii) Why axe glass slides placed over the dry cobalt chloride papers?
(iv) After about half an hour what change, if any, would you expect to find in the cobalt chloride paper placed on the dorsal and ventral sides of the leaf? Give a reason to support your answer.
(v) Define the term ‘transpiration’.
Give Technical Term
Opening found on the undersurface of the dorsiventral leaf.
The paper used to demonstrate unequal transpiration in a dicot leaf is ______.
The upper layer of mesophyll in a leaf consists of elongated ground tissue called ______.
When guard cells are flaccid, the stoma must be ______.
Define the following term:
Cuticle
The given figure represents an experiment:
- Leaf A was coated with grease on both surfaces.
- Leaf B was coated with grease on the lower surface.
- Leaf C was coated with grease on the upper surface.
- Leaf D was left without any application of grease. All four leaves A, B, C and D were left in a room for about 24 hours.
- Which leaf dries first? Give reason.
- Which leaf dries last? Give reason.
