Given ahead is the diagram of an experimental set up to study the process of transpiration in plants. Study the same and then answer the questions that follow:
(a) Name the colour of dry cobalt chloride paper. (b) Is the experimental leaf a monocot or a dicot? Give a reason to support your answer. (c) Why are glass slides placed over the dry cobalt chloride papers? (d) After about half an hour what change, if any, would you expect to find in the cobalt chloride paper placed on the dorsal and ventral sides of the leaf? Give a reason to support your answer.

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Given ahead is the diagram of an experimental set up to study the process of transpiration in plants. Study the same and then answer the questions that follow:

(a) Name the colour of dry cobalt chloride paper. (b) Is the experimental leaf a monocot or a dicot? Give a reason to support your answer. (c) Why are glass slides placed over the dry cobalt chloride papers? (d) After about half an hour what change, if any, would you expect to find in the cobalt chloride paper placed on the dorsal and ventral sides of the leaf? Give a reason to support your answer.

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(a) Blue.

(b) The experimental leaf is a dicot leaf as it shows reticulate venation and there are more number of stomatal openings on the undersurface of a dicot leaf. Hence, transpiration is more and can be easily observed.

(c) Glass slides are placed over the dry cobalt chloride papers so as to retain the strips in their position.

(d) The cobalt chloride paper on the dorsal side (upper surface) will turn less pink or turns pink in a much longer time while the one on the ventral side (lower surface) will turn more pink. This occurs because the ventral surface has more number of stomata as compared to the dorsal surface. As a result, the rate of transpiration is more on the ventral side than on the dorsal side of a dicot leaf.

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