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How do desert plants adapt to their surroundings? Explain with examples.
How do desert plants adapt to their surroundings? Explain with examples.
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- Desert plants adopt different mechanisms to adapt to their surrounding.
- For example, the cactus is a succulent plant (fleshy, and stores water in the stem) that grows in a dry and hot habitat like the desert.
- Cactus is a stem that is fleshy and stores water in it and has a thick waxy coating over it that helps to reduce water loss and its roots go very deep into the soil for better water absorption.
- Cactus leaves are absent or reduced to spines which prevent them from eating by any predator.
- Also, the stomata (small openings in the leaves through which plants transpire water) in the cactus plant are very small and are fewer in number to avoid excess water loss during transpiration.
- Desert plants adopt different mechanisms to adapt to their surrounding.
- For example, the cactus is a succulent plant (fleshy, and stores water in the stem) that grows in a dry and hot habitat like the desert.
- Cactus is a stem that is fleshy and stores water in it and has a thick waxy coating over it that helps to reduce water loss and its roots go very deep into the soil for better water absorption.
- Cactus leaves are absent or reduced to spines which prevent them from eating by any predator.
- Also, the stomata (small openings in the leaves through which plants transpire water) in the cactus plant are very small and are fewer in number to avoid excess water loss during transpiration.
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