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Give a geographical reason:
Desert biomes have thorny vegetation.
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Solution
- There is a scarcity of rainfall in desert biomes.
- Normally plants lose their moisture through their pores which are present on their leaves and stems.
- Desert plants need to avoid the loss of water through these pores to lock in the minimum levels of moisture that they have.
- Hence desert plants have leaves that are modified into thorns to control loss of water through transpiration. Therefore, desert biomes have thorny vegetation.
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