Biology
Name the following:
(a) Openings on the stem through which transpiration occurs.
(b) The process by which the intact plant loses water in the form of droplets.
(c) An instrument used to find the rate of transpiration.
(d) A plant in which the stomata are sunken.
(e) The apparatus to record the rate of transpiration in a cut shoot.
(f) Any two parts of a leaf which allow transpiration.
(g) The structure in a leaf that allows guttation.
(h) Loss of water as droplets from the margins of certain leaves.
Transpiration
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(a) Lenticels.
(b) Guttation.
(c) Potometer.
(d) Nerium.
(e) Ganong's potometer.
(f) Stomata and Cuticle.
(g) Hydathodes.
(h) Guttation.
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(b) Closing of …………… and shedding of leaves reduce …………… .
(c) Transpiration helps in creating …………… force and in removing excess …………… .
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chloroplasts and photosynthesis
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