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When the plants shed their leaves how do they respire ?

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(i) When the plants shed their leaves, respiration occur by the roots of a plant.
(ii) They take the oxygen required for respiration from the air present in -between the soil particles though extensions of the epidermal cells of a root called as root hairs, by a process called as diffusion.
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