| Assertion (A): | Cork prevents the loss of water by evaporation | 
| Reason (R): | Cork cells are dead cells | 
| 1. | Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). | 
| 2. | Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A). | 
| 3. | (A) is true but (R) is false. | 
| 4. | Both (A) and (R) are false. | 
| 1. | They are formed by some cells present in the mature regions of shoots | 
| 2. | They are involved in primary growth | 
| 3. | Some cells 'left behind' from shoot apical meristem, constitute them | 
| 4. | They contribute to formation of primary plant body | 
| 1. | Contains cells that may be oval, spherical or polygonal | 
| 2. | Has small intercellular spaces | 
| 3. | Has pectin rich wall and provide mechanical support to growing parts of plants | 
| 4. | Can perform photosynthesis | 
| a. | Lack vessels | 
| b. | have sieve tube elements | 
| c. | Have elongated tube like highly lignified main water transporting tissue | 
| d. | Lack lateral meristem | 
| a. | Presence of peripheral cytoplasm | 
| b. | Possesses a large vacuole | 
| c. | Lacks nucleus | 
| 1. | Perforations in their common walls | 
| 2. | Perforations in their end walls | 
| 3. | Pit fields between their common longitudinal walls | 
| 4. | Bordered pits in their oblique end plates | 
| (i) | First formed primary complex tissue | 
| (ii) | Has living elements | 
| (iii) | Narrow sieve tubes | 
| 1. | Guard cells are dumb-cell shaped | 
| 2. | More stomata are present at abaxial surface as compared to adaxial surface | 
| 3. | Trichomes are usually unicellular | 
| 4. | Guard cells possess chloroplasts | 
| 1. | Scattered and open | 
| 2. | Conjoint and open | 
| 3. | Radial and closed | 
| 4. | Conjoint and closed | 
| (i) | It comprises a single layer | 
| (ii) | It has barrel-shaped cells with no intercellar spaces | 
| (iii) | It has Casparian strips | 
| 1. | Epidermis of monocot leaf | 
| 2. | Pericycle of dicot root | 
| 3. | Endodermis of monocot root | 
| 4. | Endodermis of Pinus root |