NEETBotany-Anatomy of Flowering Plants

NEET Botany Leaf MCQ Question

Type: MCQ-conceptual-Medium-Class 11

Identify the incorrect statement from the following.

A

The tissue between the upper and the lower epidermis in leaf is called the mesophyll.

B

Mesophyll is not differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma in isobilateral leaf.

C

Mesophyll is differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma in dorsiventral leaf.

D

In grasses, certain adaxial epidermal cells along the veins modify themselves into large, empty, colourless cells called bundle sheath cells.

Correct Answer

Option D

Detailed Explanation

In grasses, the adaxial epidermal cells modify into bulliform cells, not bundle sheath cells, which are involved in the C₄ pathway.

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