PSS 1411 Exam 2 questions with 100%
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What are the 3 Types of Ground Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔1. Parenchyma
2. Collenchyma
3. Sclerenchyma
Parenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Most Abundant
Edible portion of fruit and vegetables, roots, herbaceous plants
Storage,adventitious
growth, Wound Healing, PS, secrition
and excretion
Collenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Veins of leaves
Support in young organs (strings in Celery
petioles)
Fruit rinds
mechanical support to young stems
Sclerenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Nonliving: bark
and stems
Stones of fruit
Grit in pear
Shells of nuts
, Where is Meristematic Tissue found? - correct answer ✔✔-At the root and shoot tips
-Growing/elongating portion of a plant
What is the function of Epidermal Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔Protective barrier
gas exchange
stomata located
What are the Types of Vascular Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔1. Xylem
2. Phloem
Describe Xylem - correct answer ✔✔conducts water and minerals from the roots to all parts of
the plant
What are the types of meristematic tissue? - correct answer ✔✔Apical- (shoot/root)
Subapical - rosette forming plants Intercalary - grasses Lateral
Vascular cambium - woody tissue
Cork Cambium - woody tissue
Describe Ploem - correct answer ✔✔conducts food from
the leaves to other parts of the plant
What is a Root Cap? - correct answer ✔✔Protects the growing tip of the root and helps it grow
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What is the apical meristem? - correct answer ✔✔Root tip where growth occurs
complete solutions graded A+
What are the 3 Types of Ground Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔1. Parenchyma
2. Collenchyma
3. Sclerenchyma
Parenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Most Abundant
Edible portion of fruit and vegetables, roots, herbaceous plants
Storage,adventitious
growth, Wound Healing, PS, secrition
and excretion
Collenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Veins of leaves
Support in young organs (strings in Celery
petioles)
Fruit rinds
mechanical support to young stems
Sclerenchyma: Where is it found? What is the Function? - correct answer ✔✔Nonliving: bark
and stems
Stones of fruit
Grit in pear
Shells of nuts
, Where is Meristematic Tissue found? - correct answer ✔✔-At the root and shoot tips
-Growing/elongating portion of a plant
What is the function of Epidermal Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔Protective barrier
gas exchange
stomata located
What are the Types of Vascular Tissue? - correct answer ✔✔1. Xylem
2. Phloem
Describe Xylem - correct answer ✔✔conducts water and minerals from the roots to all parts of
the plant
What are the types of meristematic tissue? - correct answer ✔✔Apical- (shoot/root)
Subapical - rosette forming plants Intercalary - grasses Lateral
Vascular cambium - woody tissue
Cork Cambium - woody tissue
Describe Ploem - correct answer ✔✔conducts food from
the leaves to other parts of the plant
What is a Root Cap? - correct answer ✔✔Protects the growing tip of the root and helps it grow
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What is the apical meristem? - correct answer ✔✔Root tip where growth occurs