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Answer the following question.
How can you identify whether the plant is C3 or C4? Explain / Justify.
Solution
- By observing the cross-section of a leaf we can identify whether the plant is a C3 plant or a C4 plant.
- C4 plants possess special anatomy of leaves called Kranz anatomy. In Kranz anatomy, two types of chloroplasts are present, agranal in bundle sheath cells and granal in mesophyll cells.
- In C3 plants Kranz anatomy is absent.
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