If you uproot a plant from the soil, its leaves soon wilt. Why?

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Solution

Reason for the wilting of leaves:
The structure and shape of the plant and plant parts are maintained by turgidity.
When a plant is uprooted, the leaves continue to lose water from the stomatal opening through the process of transpiration.
The uprooted plant cannot absorb water from the soil and the lost water cannot be compensated resulting in wilting of the leaves.
Therefore, the reason for the wilting of an uprooted plant is transpiration.

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