NEETBotanyPlant - Growth and Development
Read the following statements and choose the following option: 1. Lateral meristems appear later in a plants life 2. Meristems are not involed in secondary growth 3. Vascular cambium and cork-cambium appear early in life. 4. These are the meristems that cause the increase in the length of the organs in which they are active.
Options
- AOnly 1 is correct
- BBoth 1 and 3 is incorrect
- COnly 2 is correct
- DBoth 2 and 4 is correct
Correct answer
A. Only 1 is correct
Step-by-step solution
In dicotyledonous plants and gymnosperms, the lateral meristems, vascular cambium and cork-cambium appear later in life. These are the meristems that cause the increase in the girth of the organs in which they are active.