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What do we call the element in xylem transport that is made of long, hollow, dead cells with wall pits?

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Seive tubes

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Companion cells

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Trachieds

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Aerenchyma

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Solution

The correct option is C
Trachieds

Tracheids are one of two types of tracheary elements, vessel elements being the other and unlike vessel elements, tracheids do not have perforation plates.

Tracheids serve in the transport of water and mineral salts.

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Which cell does not have perforated cell wall?

(a) Tracheids
(b) Companion cells
(c) Sieve tubes
(d) Vessels

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(i) The sieve tube elements and companion cells are connected by pit fields present between their common longitudinal walls.
(ii) Phloem parenchyma is made of elongated non-tapering cylindrical cells that have a scanty cytoplasm.
(iii) Phloem fibers are made of parenchymatous cells.
(iv) Companion cells help in maintaining the pressure gradient in the sieve tube.
(v) The phloem parenchyma stores food material and other substances like resins, latex, and mucilage.

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Q. Plant cells responsible for the transport of water are dead when they are mature enough to act as water transport tissues. These cells include which of the following cell types?
I. Tracheids
II. Vessel elements
III. Sieve tube members
IV. Companion cells

Q. Consider the following statements
(a) Xylem transports water and minerals
(b) Gymnosperms lack sieve tubes and companion cells in phloem
(c) First formed primary xylem is called metaxylem
(d) Phloem fibres (bast fibres) are made of collenchyma
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