Which of the following plants loss least amount of water to atmosphere through the transpiration? (i) Cactus (ii) Mango tree (iii) Banyan tree (iv) Date plam tree
(i) and (iv)
Cactus (a xerophyte with reduced leaves/spines and CAM photosynthesis) and date palm (a drought-adapted desert plant) both lose very little water via transpiration, unlike broad-leaved mesophytes like mango and banyan.
Important Questions from Botany
One advantage of sexual reproduction over asexual reproduction is that it helps species to survive over long evolutionary time. This is because sexual reproduction produces :
During a laboratory experiment, a student immerses epidermal leaf peel in a hypertonic solution. After some time, the student examined the cells under a microscope and observed that:
The breakdown of glucose in cytoplasm results in the formation of
After fertilization, the fruit and the seed are produced by
- Which one of the following groups is called 'amphibians of plant kingdom'?
