Question

A common structural feature of vessel elements and sieve tube elements is-

• A. Thick secondary walls
• B. Pores on lateral wall
• C. Presence of p-protein
• D. Enucleate condition

Answer 1

The correct option is D Enucleate condition

Xylem is the principal water-conducting tissue of the plant. It consists of four types of cells-tracheids, vessels, xylem fibres, and xylem parenchyma. Xylem vessels are hollow, elongated cells with open ends and pitted walls. Cells walls are lignified. At maturity, the nucleus is absent in vessels. The constituent cells of the phloem are sieve elements (sieve cells, sieve tubes), companion cells, phloem fibres, and phloem parenchyma cells. Sieve tube members are long, slender, tube-like cells joined end to end, to form long tubular channels - the sieve tubes. Sieve tube members possess specialized sieve areas on the end walls called sieve plate. Young sieve-tube members have abundant cytoplasm but there is no nucleus. The nucleus disintegrates during their development.

So, the correct answer is 'Enucleate condition'.