Question

Plants do not have glands, then how do they secrete hormones?

• A. Each cell is capable of producing hormones
• B. One cell produces hormone and then it is transferred to others
• C. Hormones are produced by soil and taken up by the roots
• D. Hormones are produced as side products during photosynthesis

Answer 1

The correct option is A Each cell is capable of producing hormones

• In animals, there are various glands that produce different hormones but such glands are absent in the plants. Instead, each cell is capable of producing hormones.
• Plant hormones shape the plant, affecting seed growth, time of flowering, the sex of flowers, senescence of leaves, and fruits.
• They affect which tissues grow upward and which grow downward, leaf formation and stem growth, fruit development and ripening, plant longevity and even plant death.
• Hormones are vital to plant growth and lacking them, plants would be mostly a mass of undifferentiated cells. So, they are also known as growth factors or growth hormones.

Therefore, the correct answer is option A.