Question

The term "lepton" refers to

• A. Soft walled conducting part of the phloem
• B. Non conducting part of phloem
• C. Conducting part of xylem
• D. Non-conducting part of xylem

Answer 1

The correct option is A Soft walled conducting part of the phloem

The soft walled conducting part of phloem is refer to as “lepton”. As we know that phloem is a composed of four elements namely, sieve elements, companion cell, phloem fibres and phloem parenchyma. The main function of phloem is to translocate food from the leaf to the different parts of the tree.