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NEET 2009
Exam
NEET
Year
2009
Subject
Botany
Chapter
Transport in Plants

NEET 2009 · Botany · Transport in Plants

Guard cells help in

Guard cells help in

Options

  1. Aprotection against grazing
  2. Btranspiration
  3. Cguttation
  4. Dfighting against infection

Correct answer

B. transpiration

Step-by-step solution

Guard cells help in transpiration. Each stomatal opening is surrounded by two specialized epidermal cells, called guard cells. Because of their small size guard cells are rapidly influenced by turgor change and thus regulate the opening and closing of stomata.
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