Read the different components from I to IV in the list given below and tell the correct order of the components with reference to their arrangement from the outer side to the inner side in a woody dicot stem.

I. Secondary Cortex 
II. Wood 
III. Secondary phloem 
IV. Phellem 

The correct order is:

1. III, IV, II, I 2. I, II, IV, III
3. IV, I, III, II 4. IV, III, I, II

Subtopic:  Dicot Stem |
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NEET - 2015
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Tracheids differ from the tracheary elements in:

1. Having casparian strips

2. Being imperforate

3. Lacking nucleus

4. Being lignified

Subtopic:  Complex Tissue: Xylem |
AIPMT - 2014
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Gymnosperms are also called softwood spermatophytes because they lack:

1. Cambium

2. Phloem fibres

3. Thick-walled tracheids

4. Xylem fibres

Subtopic:  Complex Tissue: Xylem |
AIPMT - 2012
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Ground tissue includes:

1.  all tissues except epidermis and vascular bundles

2.  epidermis and cortex

3.  all tissues internal to endodermis

4.  all tissues external to endodermis

Subtopic:  Ground Tissue System |
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AIPMT - 2011
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The cork cambium, cork and secondary cortex are collectively called:
1.  phellogen
2.  periderm
3.  phellem
4.  phelloderm
Subtopic:  Activity of Cork Cambium |
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AIPMT - 2011
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The annular and spirally thickened conducting elements generally develop in the protoxylem when the root or stem is:

1. maturing

2. elongating

3. widening

4. differentiating

Subtopic:  Anatomy of Root |
AIPMT - 2009
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The length of different internodes in a culm of sugarcane is variable because of:

1. shoot apical meristem

2. position of axillary buds

3. size of leaf lamina at the node below each internode

4. intercalary meristem

Subtopic:  Meristematic Tissue:Classification (OLD NCERT) |
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AIPMT - 2008
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Tyloses an outgrowth from ray or axial parenchyma cell into the lumen of a vessel, which partially or completely blocks the cavity, are present in:

1. Periderm

2. Heartwood

3. Sapwood

4. Secondary cortex

Subtopic:  Types of Wood (OLD NCERT) |
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The term 'bark' refers to:
 

1. phellem, phelloderm and vascular cambium
2. periderm and secondary xylem
3. cork cambium and cork
4. phellogen, phellem, phelloderm and secondary phloem
Subtopic:  Activity of Cork Cambium |
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In the sieve elements, which one of the following is the most likely function of P-proteins?

1. Depletion of callose on sieve plates

2. Providing energy for active translocation

3. Autolytic enzymes

4. Sealing off mechanism on wounding

Subtopic:  Complex Tissue: Phloem |
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