NEETBotanyAnatomy of Flowering Plants
Read the following statements and choose the follwoing option: 1. Ground tissues exclude epidermis and vascular bundles 2. Ground tissue in leaves are called mesophyll 3. The root hairs are multicellular elongations of the epidermal cells and help absorb water and minerals from the soil. 4. The trichomes does not help in preventing water loss due to transpiration.
Options
- ABoth 1 and 2 is correct
- BOnly 1 is incorrect
- COnly 2 is correct
- DBoth 2 and 4 is correct
Correct answer
A. Both 1 and 2 is correct
Step-by-step solution
All tissues except epidermis and vascular bundles constitute the ground tissue. It consists of simple tissues such as parenchyma, collenchyma and sclerenchyma. The ground tissue consists of thin-walled chloroplast containing cells and is called mesophyll.