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Guard cell help in

  • protection against grazing

  • transpiration

  • guttation

  • guttation


B.

transpiration

Guard cells help in transpiration. Each stomatal opening is surrounded by two specialized epidermal cells, called guard cells. Because of their small size guard cells are rapidly influenced by turgor change and thus regulate the opening and closing of stomata.

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In a ring girdled plant

  • the shoot dies first

  • the root dies first

  • the shoot and root die together

  • the shoot and root die together

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Which one gives the most valid and recent explanation for stomatal movements?

  • Transpiration

  • Potassium influx and efflux

  • Starch hydrolysis

  • Starch hydrolysis

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Which one gives the most valid and recent explanation for stomatal movements?

  • Transpiration

  • Potassium influx and efflux

  • Starch hydrolysis

  • Starch hydrolysis

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The movement of a gene from one linkage group to another is called

  • inversion

  • duplication

  • translocation

  • translocation

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The function of leghemoglobin in the root nodules of legumes is 

  • oxygen removal 

  • nodule differentiation

  • expression of nif gene

  • expression of nif gene

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Guttation is the result of 

  • diffusion

  • transpiration

  • osmosis 

  • osmosis 

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Carrier ions like Na+ facilitate the absorption of substance like

  • amino acids and glucose

  • glucose and fatty acids

  • fatty acids and glycerol

  • fatty acids and glycerol

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The rupture and fractionation do not usually occur in the water column in vessel/tracheids during the ascent of sap because of 

  • lignified thick walls

  • cohesion and adhesion

  • weak gravitational pull

  • weak gravitational pull

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Passage cells are thin-walled cells found in

  • endodermis of roots facilitating rapid transport of water from cortex to pericycle

  • phloem elements that serve as entry points for substance for transport to other plant parts

  • testa of seeds to enable emergence of growing embryonic axis during seed germination

  • testa of seeds to enable emergence of growing embryonic axis during seed germination

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