Name: ______________________________________________ Date: ____________________

Yr. and Sec.: _______________________________

Pre-Task on Plant Organography: Roots

Answer the following questions:

1. Distinguish between a tiny root and a root hair. What is the function of a root hair?

2. What is the difference between parasitic roots and mycorrhizae?

3. What is the function of the root cap, and from which meristem does it originate?

4. How do endodermal cells differ from other types of cells?

Give five (5) examples of plants in which the roots have pharmaceutical/pharmacological importance.
Use the table below:

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