NEET2006BotanyAnatomy of Flowering PlantsActual
A common structural feature of vessel elements and sieve tube elements is:
Options
- Aenucleate condition
- Bthick secondary walls
- Cpores on lateral walls
- Dpresence of P-protein
Correct answer
A. enucleate condition
Step-by-step solution
Enucleate condition means cells without nuclei. This is found in vessel elements and sieve tube elements. Thick secondary wall is the inner most layer of cell wall, it is found in the cell wall of vessel elements. The thickened areas present on the lateral walls of the vessel elements are called pores. P- proteins are the small tubular fibrillar, granular or crystalline sub microscopic structures appear in the cytoplasm of sieve tubes. Caution Xylem vessels become dead and lose their protoplasm due to deposition of