AIIMS 2003
- Exam
- AIIMS
- Year
- 2003
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Anatomy of Flowering Plants
AIIMS 2003 · Botany · Anatomy of Flowering Plants
Assertion : Long distance flow of photoassimilates in plants occurs...
Assertion : Long distance flow of photoassimilates in plants occurs through sieve tubes.
Reason : Mature sieve tubes have parietal cytoplasm and perforated sieve plates.
Options
- AIf both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion
- BIf both Assertion and Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion
- CIf Assertion is true statement but Reason is false
- Dif both Assertion and Reason are false statements
Correct answer
A. If both Assertion and Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion
Step-by-step solution
The main function of sieve tube is the transport of food products from green and storage organs of the plant to other organs of the plant. The sieve elements are sieve tubes arranged one above the other and have sieve plates (obligue or transverse perforated septa) on their end walls. The cytoplasm occur in the form of a thin living layer along the inner side of cellulose wall. The nucleus disappears in mature sieve elements.