Plant Anatomy: Leaves, Structure, and Gas Exchange, Stomata, Roots, Slides of Biology

Download Plant Anatomy: Leaves, Structure, and Gas Exchange, Stomata, Roots and more Slides Biology in PDF only on Docsity! Plants Structure – Leaves stem roots Docsity.com Leaves Docsity.com Structure Wide Helps to catch more light energy Thin Help get carbon dioxide from bottom to top of leaf for photosynthesis Docsity.com Leaf structure Greener on top CO2 gets in here Docsity.com met eli Mem relict Com Upper _| Epidermis |_ Palisade Mesophyll Mesophyll — |_ Spongy Mesophyll Lower - Epidermis Wax Cuticle Guard Gell with Chloroplast! Leaf diagram - stoma and guard cells Upper _ | Epidermis | Palisade Mesophyll Mesophyll |_ Spongy Mesophyll Lower a7 Epidermis Wax Cuticle Guard Cell with Chloroplasts Docsity.com ion i Stoma pos Palisade layer Lower ¢pidermis Stoma 3 a = a 3 o Stoma is a small hole Its size is controlled by 2 guard cells closed open Docsity.com Gas exchange Docsity.com Roots – function and structure Hold plant in position Absorb water and minerals from the soil Specialised cells to increase surface area for water intake Docsity.com Wheat seed Root hairs Fragile parts of cells that grow from the main root They massively increase the surface area for absorption Docsity.com