In which habitat would you expect more cavitations— moist tropics or drier temperate areas? In which would you expect wood to have wide vessels, in which would you expect wood to have narrow vessels or just tracheids?

Q: Which type of wood do you think transports more water per unit area, pine or oak? Why?

A: Within the plants, water move in and out of the plant cells through osmosis, and there occurs…

Q: Which of the following statements are true regarding tracheids and vessel elements? Select all that…

A: Tracheids are the elongated cells in the xylem of vascular tissue that serve in the transport of…

Q: From environmental pressures to obtain and retain water, many plants developed to transport…

A: Plants are one of the five kingdoms of life-living things and it is able to grow on land as well as…

Q: Draw a diagram illustrating how latent heat flux is driven by humidity gradients between the inside…

A: The stomata open at high air humidity in spite of a decrease in leaf water content. This excludes a…

Q: Example of a Upland Canopy White Oak Leaf 2 Count the total number of stomata

A: The white oak or Quercus alba belongs to the Fagaceae family, is a perennial tree and grows best on…

Q: Emergent land plants that can tolerate the salinities of the sea are called.

A: -Halophytes are the type of salt tolerant plants that can grow in waters of high salinity.  -The use…

Q: Conifers are well adapted to cold and dry conditions. List at least three reasons why this is.

A: Conifers are the cone-bearing plants belonging to the Gymnospermae phylum.

Q: The greatest trophic diversity is found in which group of organisms?

A: Trophic means the hierarchical strata of a food web or nutrition. Trophic diversity means…

Q: The figure below shows the degree of stomatal opening in three plant species during the course of a…

A: Transpiration is a process of water loss from plants through evaporation into the atmosphere.

Q: Explain how the movement of water molecules from inside the roots to the air space around the…

A: The emergent properties or the collective properties are critical attributes of biological systems,…

Q: ompare the energy needs of a plant for the movement of water in the xylem according to the…

A: Energy needs of a plant for the movement of water in the xylem according to the cohesion-tension…

Q: Would one type of root system provide more adaptive advantages in a particular environment such as a…

A: Roots are one of the organs in the plant body present under the ground. It provides support to the…

Q: Refer to figure 23.15 and the chapter content to answer the followingquestions.1. Review the Survey…

A: Plant growth and development passes through the following stages: 1.Growth  2. Morphogenesis. 3.…

Q: Compare the water-conducting abilities of mosses and hornworts.

A: In botany, mosses are included  in bryophyta kingdom. They are  avascular, devoid of flowers, stems…

Q: With the help of a diagram, explain the role of potassium in the opening and closing of stomata

A: A stoma is a pore found in the epidermis of leaves, stems, and other organs. It controls the rate of…

Q: Turgor pressure in a plant is directly related to 0000 the amount of water within the chloroplasts…

A: Introduction: Plant cells are similar to human cells, with the exception that they are surrounded by…

Q: Why would it be adaptive for subtropical trees to shed their leaves during seasonal periods of…

A: Temperate deciduous forest biomes are populations of plants distributed in North and South America,…

Q: Upon learning about planarian regeneration, is human regeneration possible in the near future?…

A: Binary fission is a way through which asexual fresh planarians reproduce by breaking themselves into…

Q: If a leaf disc is exposed to light but not to CO2, why would it not produce enough O2 to float?

A: Floating leaf disc experiment is commonly used to determine whether the process of Photosynthesis…

Q: Give biological reason for cutting of trees should be discourged.

A: A complex relationship between all the living and nonliving things (plants, animals, organisms, sun,…

Q: Which of the following parts of a tree are involved in transpiration? Group of answer choices…

A: Stomata, Xylem, Phloem is the correct option. Transpiration Transpiration is also known as…

Q: The function of pits in the walls of tracheids is -to stop the backflow of water. -to seal off…

A: The question is asking about the function of pits in the walls of tracheids. Tracheids are one of…

Q: Pine trees are coniferous trees native to most areas of the Northern Hemisphere. Pines produce seeds…

A: A growth curve is a graph that shows how a certain quantity increases over time. In mathematics,…

Q: Explain the pressure-flow hypothesis by first completing the statements with the terms provided, and…

A: As plants don't have a circulatory system or a heart, they require a transportation system to carry…

Q: Xerophytes have adaptations such as having a waxy leaf cuticle that will make them survive in hot…

A: Answer : It is impermeable to water, thus stops evaporation.

Q: Draw and label the features of a leaf that are necessaryto maintain a well-hydrated interior while…

A: The stomata is a plant structure that is made up of two guard cells that surround the central pore.…

Q: Which of the following statements is CORRECT?Aquaporins:a. play an active role in the regulation of…

A: Aquaporins:  As the name says aqua-water: porin- pore, or water channel. Aquaporins are protein…

Q: Describe not just list 4 adaptations that allow plants to cope with these challenges, 2 for coping…

A: The transition of plants from water to land Liverworts are believed to be the first plants that…

Q: Pine trees are coniferous trees native to most areas of the Northern Hemisphere Pines produce seeds…

A: A graphical representation of quantity of a particular thing over time is represented by growth…

Q: [ Select ] were needed in land plants to allow for gas exchange because the [ Select] created an…

A: Given: Like animals, plants do also respire. During respiration plants take in oxygen and given out…

Q: How is pith and cortex ground tissue different ос pith is external to the vascular tissue and cortex…

A: The cortex is the layer of tissue between the vascular tissue and the epidermis, while the pith is…

Q: What would be the appearance of  secondary tissue in trees growing in regions of the planet without…

A: Introduction :- Secondary tissue is a type of plant tissue that forms in mature plants and provides…

Q: An important factor for plants is the amount of water lost for each molecule of carbon dioxide…

A: Most of the water in the plant are lost due to a process called transpiration. On exposure to…

Q: Openings in the plant body to allow for gas exchange are termed palisade cells collenchyma stomata O…

A: Introduction: Sunlight is an essential element in the process of photosynthesis, which is why it can…

Q: Under similar environmental condition and considering the ultimate role of stomata in transpiration,…

A: Option 4 is correct. Approximately 400 per square mm of the leaf surface. Surface area increase…

Soil Ecosystem

Soil provides a habitat or living environment for a large number of different species of organisms as well as plants. It provides all the essential nutrients and minerals for plants to grow. All these together form the soil ecosystem.