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Age of a tree can be estimated by

  • its height and girth

  • biomass

  • number of annual rings

  • diameter of its heartwood


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number of annual rings

Age of a tree can be estimated by number of annual rings. The two kinds of woods that appear as alternate concentric rings, constitute an annual ring heartwood comprises dead elements with highly lignified walls that give mechanical support to the stem. The height and girth of a tree increases due to the activity of vascular cambium.


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Lenticels are involved in

  • transpiration

  • gaseous exchange

  • food transport

  • photosynthesis


Interfascicular cambium is a

  • primary meristematic tissue

  • primordial meristem

  • type of protoderm

  • secondary meristematic tissue


One of the characteristic of sieve tube is

  • it is a part of phloem

  • function is transport of inorganic solutes

  • it is dead cell

  • sieve plate is not present


Quiescent centre is found in plants at

  • root tip

  • cambium

  • shoot tip

  • leaf tip


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Medullary rays are tissues made up of

  • phloem parenchyma

  • xylem parenchyma

  • sieve tube

  • sclerenchyma


Interfascicular cambium develops from the cells of

  • medullary rays

  • xylem parenchyma

  • endodermis

  • pericycle


Pith is absent in

  • protostele

  • eustele

  • amphiphloic stele

  • ectophloic stele


Portion of apical meristem that gives xylem tissue is called

  • protoxylem

  • procambium

  • metaxylem

  • tracheid


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In the following pairs, where do you get lignin in both the element?

  • Tracheid and collenchyma

  • Sclerenchyma and sieve tube

  • Sclerenchyma and trachea

  • Parenchyma and endodermis


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