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 * Question: What is the main function of the epidermal tissue system?

   Answer: To form the outermost covering of the plant body for protection.

 * Question: Name the two complex tissues that make up the vascular tissue system.

   Answer: Xylem and phloem.

 * Question: What is the name given to the outermost covering of the root?

   Answer: Epiblema.

 * Question: What is the function of root hairs?

   Answer: To absorb water and minerals from the soil.

 * Question: What is the term for the waxy, thick layer on the outside of the epidermis?

   Answer: Cuticle.

 * Question: Where in the plant are stomata primarily located?

   Answer: In the epidermis of leaves.

 * Question: What are the three components of the stomatal apparatus?

   Answer: The stomatal aperture, guard cells, and surrounding subsidiary cells.

 * Question: What is the name of the ground tissue in a leaf?

   Answer: Mesophyll.

 * Question: What makes a vascular bundle "open"?

   Answer: The presence of cambium between the xylem and phloem.

 * Question: In a dicot stem, what is the arrangement of vascular bundles?

   Answer: They are arranged in a ring.

 * Question: What kind of xylem arrangement (endarch or exarch) is found in a root?

   Answer: Exarch.

 * Question: What is the primary function of collenchyma in a dicot stem?

   Answer: To provide mechanical support to the young stem.

 * Question: Which tissue layer in a root is responsible for giving rise to lateral roots?

   Answer: Pericycle.

 * Question: In a dorsiventral leaf, what is the name for the mesophyll layer with loosely arranged cells and large air spaces?

   Answer: Spongy parenchyma.

 * Question: What are the large, colorless cells in the epidermis of a monocot leaf called?

   Answer: Bulliform cells.

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