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Given below are the figures showing some kinds of tropic movements in plants. Study the same and answer the following questions:

Which one of these figures is correct? Give reason in support of your answer. Name the kind of movements shown by the root system and the shoot system. Define each. Chemical Coordination in Plants, Concise Biology Solutions ICSE Class 10.

(a) Which one of these figures is correct? Give reason in support of your answer.

(b) Name the kind of movements shown by the root system and the shoot system. Define each.

(c) What are the two stimuli which affect root system and shoot system? Name them.

(d) Which of the following stimuli affect the growth of root strongly?

  1. Gravity
  2. Water

(e) Draw a neat and labelled diagram of the longitudinal section of a pistil showing chemotropism in an angiospermic plant.

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(a) Figure A is correct as it shows roots growing towards gravity and shoot growing away from gravity.

(b) Root shows positive geotropism and shoot shows negative geotropism.

Positive geotropism is defined as movement of plant towards earth's gravity. For example, roots show positive geotropism.

Negative geotropism is defined as movement of plant away from gravity. For example, shoot shows negative geotropism.

(c) Root system — Gravity
     Shoot system — Light

(d) Gravity

(e) Below diagram shows chemotropism in a pistil:

Draw a neat and labelled diagram of the longitudinal section of a pistil showing chemotropism in an angiospermic plant. Chemical Coordination in Plants, Concise Biology Solutions ICSE Class 10.

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