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 |
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. | Pericycle gives rise to lateral roots |
2. | Parenchymatous cells lie between the xylem and the phloem |
3. | Usually more than six (polyarch) xylem bundles |
4. | Exarch xylem |