NEET 2011
- Exam
- NEET
- Year
- 2011
- Subject
- Botany
- Chapter
- Anatomy of Flowering Plants
NEET 2011 · Botany · Anatomy of Flowering Plants
In land plants, the guard cells differ from other epidermal cells...
In land plants, the guard cells differ from other epidermal cells in having
Options
- Amitochondria
- Bendoplasmic reticulum
- Cchloroplasts
- Dcytoskeleton
Correct answer
C. chloroplasts
Step-by-step solution
The guard cells of stomata in land plants are specialised epidermal cells which contain chloroplasts. In rest of epidermal cells, chloroplasts are absent. But chloroplasts of guard cells are capable of poor photosynthesis as there is absence of NADP reductase enzyme.