Home
Class 11
BIOLOGY
Why the heart wood is unable to cond...

Why the heart wood is unable to conduct water ?

Text Solution

Verified by Experts

The heart wood stops conducting water . As vessels of the heart wood are blocked by tyloses , water is not conducted through them . Due to the presence of tyloses and their contents the heart wood becomes coloured , dead and the hardest aprt of the wood .
Promotional Banner

Topper's Solved these Questions

  • SECONDARY GROWTH

    FULL MARKS|Exercise Additional Questions Solved (Short Answer Type Questions )|13 Videos

  • SECONDARY GROWTH

    FULL MARKS|Exercise Additional Questions Solved (Long Answer Type Questions )|6 Videos

  • SECONDARY GROWTH

    FULL MARKS|Exercise Additional Questions Solved|20 Videos

  • SAMPLE PAPER-4 (SOLVED)

    FULL MARKS|Exercise Bio-Zoology(Part-IV)|4 Videos

  • TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATIC BOTANY

    FULL MARKS|Exercise ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS SOLVED (Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS))|6 Videos

Similar Questions

Explore conceptually related problems

Timber from heart wood is:

When_____ is destroyed, the plant will die because conduction of water will be blocked.

Assertion (A) : Sap wood is vital to the plant but heart wood is not . Reason (R ) : When the heart wood of the tree is destroyed, no vital function of the plant is affected , when the sap wood is destroyed the plant will die, conduction of water is blocked.

Subtance present in the heart wood of 'Sandal wood' which gives the scented smell______.

Heart wood is also known as_______

Can we get back the wood immediately from carbon dioxide and water ? Why ?

Assertion : Pholem conducts food materials to different parts of the plant. Reason : Xylem conducts water and minerals to different parts of the plant.

What do heart wood and sap wood stand for ?

Heart wood differs from sapwood in