Question

Reduction in vascular tissue, mechanical tissue and cuticle is characteristic of...........

• A. Xerophytes
• B. Epiphytes
• C. Mesophytes
• D. Hydrophytes

Answer 1

Answer:

D. Hydrophytes

• In hydrophytes mechanical tissue i.e. sclerenchyma, conducting tissue xylem, absorbing tissues are in reduced form or absent.

• Cuticle is either completely absent or if present it is thin and poorly developed.