Function of copanion cells is  from Biology Anatomy of Floweri

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41.

Water containing cavities in vascular bundles are found in 

  • sunflower

  • maize

  • Cycas

  • Cycas

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42.

To obtain virus - free healthy plants from a diseased one by tissue culture technique, which part/parts of the diseased plant will be taken?

  • Apical meristem only

  • Palisade parenchyma

  • Both apical and axillary meristems

  • Both apical and axillary meristems

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43.

As compared to a dicot root, a monocot root has

  • more abundant secondary xylem

  • many xylem bundles

  • inconspicuous annual rings

  • inconspicuous annual rings

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44.

You are given a fairly old piece of dicot stem and a dicot root. Which of the following anatomical structure will you use to distinguish between the two?

  • Secondary xylem

  • Secondary phloem

  • Protoxylem

  • Protoxylem

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45.

Vascular bundles in monocotyledons are considered closed because

  • a bundle sheath surrounds each bundle

  • cambium is absent

  • there are no vessels with perforations

  • there are no vessels with perforations

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46.

A major characteristic of the monocot root is the presence of

  • Open vascular bundles

  • Scattered vascular bundles

  • Vasculature without cambium

  • Vasculature without cambium

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47.

The Eyes of the potato tuber are

  • flower buds

  • shoot buds

  • axillary buds

  • axillary buds

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48.

In land plants, the guard cells differ from other epidermal cells in having

  • mitochondria

  • endoplasmic reticulum

  • chloroplasts

  • chloroplasts

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49.

The cork cambium, cork and secondary cortex are collectively called

  • Phellogen

  • Periderm

  • phellem

  • phellem

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50.

Function of copanion cells is 

  • providing energy to sleve elements for active transport

  • Providing water to phloem

  • loading of sucrose into sieve elements by passive transport

  • loading of sucrose into sieve elements by passive transport


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loading of sucrose into sieve elements by passive transport

The companion cells are specialised parenchyma cells, which are closely associated with sieve tube elements. The sieve tube elements and companion cells help in maintaining the pressure gradient in the sieve tubes. they also function in the loading of sucrose into sieve elements actively.

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