Question 1

Paper 2Easy6 marks

A student prepares a transverse section of a dicotyledonous leaf to examine the arrangement of tissues involved in gas exchange.

(a)

Draw a plan diagram of the section. Label the waxy cuticle, upper and lower epidermis, palisade mesophyll, spongy mesophyll, air spaces and a vein. Do not draw individual cells.

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(b)

State one role in gas exchange of the air spaces and one role of the guard cells of a stoma.

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