Absorption of water in plants is a vital process that is important for plant growth and other metabolic activities. Water absorption in lower plants takes place by the process of osmosis through the whole plant body. In higher plants, the mechanism of water absorption is through the root hairs. Plants mainly absorb water from the …
Rhizopus is a type of fungus that belongs to the class Zygomycetes, as its species produce zygospore in the sexual reproductive phase. They are also called bread, black or pin mould. These can reproduce by vegetative, asexual and sexual methods through fragmentation, sporangiospores and zygospores formation, respectively. Rhizopus species are cosmopolitan in distribution. It grows …
Aspergillus is a common fungus, which is present everywhere (in the soil, air, water etc.), or we can say it is present in a wide range of conditions. Therefore, these are ubiquitous in nature. It consists of several 100-500 species, among which some are economically important, and some are deleterious, i.e. pathogenic. It was named …
The difference between dicot and monocot leaf is due to the factors like the venation pattern and symmetry. Venation pattern: Monocot leaf shows parallel venation, i.e. in this kind of leaves the veins strike parallel to each other. Dicot leaf shows reticulate venation, i.e. in this the veins of leaf strike towards each other. Symmetry: …