Class 11 · Anatomy of Flowering Plants

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Look at (a), it shows the transverse section of the sunflower root. The internal tissue organisation is as follows: The outermost layer is epiblema. Many of the cells of epiblema protrude in the form of unicellular root hairs. The cortex consists of several layers of thin-walled parenchyma cells

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What is the name of the outermost layer of a dicot root?

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