Definitions / Explanation :

$(i)$ Conjoint vascular bundles

$(ii)$ Secondary growth

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$(i)$ The vascular bundle in which xylem tissue and phloem tissue are arranged together, such a vascular bundle is called conjoint vascular bundle.

$(ii)$ In most of the dicot plants, after completion of primary growth due to formation of secondary tissue, the increase in girth is called secondary growth.

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The transverse section of a plant material shows the following anatomical features, $(a)$ the vascular bundles are conjoint, scattered and surrounded by clerenchymatous undle sheaths $(b)$ phloem parenchyma is absent. What will you identify it as?

Assertion : In collateral vascular bundles, phloem is situated towards inner side.
Reason : In monocot stem, cambium is present

  • [AIIMS 2000]

Pericycle of the roots is never sclerenchymatous because it

Sclerenchyma usually_______ and ________ protoplasts.

  • [AIIMS 2014]

Match the following

Column $-I$ Column $-II$
$(a)$ Dicot leaf $(p)$ Polyarch
$(b)$ Dicot stem $(q)$ Pallisade and spongy mesophy $II$
$(c)$ Monocot root $(r)$ Endarch
$(d)$ Monocot leaf $(s)$ Bulli form Cell