Name the following :

(a) Openings on the stem through which transpiration occurs.

(b) The process by which the intact plant loses water in the form of droplets.

(c) An instrument used to find the rate of transpiration.

(d) A plant in which the stomata are sunken.

(e) The apparatus to record the rate of transpiration in a cut shoot.

(f) Any two parts of a leaf which allow transpiration.

(g) The structure in a leaf that allows guttation.

(h) Loss of water as droplets from the margins of certain leaves.

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Solution

(a) Lenticles
(b) Guttation
(c) Potometer
(d) Nerium
(e) Potometer
(f) Stomata and guard cells are the places or spots in the leaves where transpiration takes place
(g) Hydathode
(h) Guttation

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Which of the following statements are true and which ones are false? Give reason in support of your answer.

(a) Potometer is an instrument used for demonstration of transpiration occurring from the lower surface of a leaf.

(b) Hydathodes are similar to stomata in plant physiology.

(d) Some desert plants have sunken stomata on their leaves.

(e) Most transpiration occurs during midday.

Give suitable explanation for the following :

(a) A higher rate of transpiration is recorded on a windy day rather than on a calm day.

(b) Excessive transpiration results in the wilting of the leaves.

(d) More transpiration occurs from the lower surface of a dorsiventral leaf.

(e) Cork and bark of trees help in preventing loss of water.

(f) Perspiration and transpiration help to cool the body temperature of the organism.

(g) On a bright sunny day, the leaves of certain plants roll up.

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