NEETBotanyAnatomy of Flowering Plants
Read the following statements and choose the follwoing option: 1. Pericycle are layers of thin walled collenchyma cells 2. Casperian strips are water impermeable 3. In monocots, The pith is small or inconspicuous. 4. Dicotyledonous roots do undergo any secondary growth.
Options
- ABoth 1 and 2 is corect
- BOnly 3 is correct
- COnly 2 is correct
- DBoth 4 and 2 is incorrect
Correct answer
C. Only 2 is correct
Step-by-step solution
The tangential as well as radial walls of the endodermal cells have a deposition of water-impermeable, waxy material suberin in the form of casparian strips.