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  • Veins (Xylem + Phloem) Tightly Packed Palisade Layer: How Leaves Are Adapted For Their Function

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    Leaves are adapted in several ways to perform their functions of gas exchange, transport of water and glucose, and light absorption. They have tightly packed palisade layers with many chloroplasts for maximum light absorption, veins for transport of water and glucose, and air spaces and a thin upper epidermis to allow for quick gas exchange. The waxy cuticle protects against water loss and bacterial entry while providing a large surface area to absorb light.

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    Leaves are adapted in several ways to perform their functions of gas exchange, transport of water and glucose, and light absorption. They have tightly packed palisade layers with many chloroplasts for maximum light absorption, veins for transport of water and glucose, and air spaces and a thin upper epidermis to allow for quick gas exchange. The waxy cuticle protects against water loss and bacterial entry while providing a large surface area to absorb light.

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    Veins (Xylem + Phloem) Tightly Packed Palisade Layer: How Leaves Are Adapted For Their Function

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    Leaves are adapted in several ways to perform their functions of gas exchange, transport of water and glucose, and light absorption. They have tightly packed palisade layers with many chloroplasts for maximum light absorption, veins for transport of water and glucose, and air spaces and a thin upper epidermis to allow for quick gas exchange. The waxy cuticle protects against water loss and bacterial entry while providing a large surface area to absorb light.

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    TIGHTLY To bring water

    For maximum VEINS


    PACKED to the leaf &
    amount of (XYLEM + transport
    chloroplasts PALISADE
    PHLOEM) glucose
    LAYER

    Stop bacteria
    entering leaf

    For maximum MANY


    WAXY Reduce water
    light CHLOROPLA loss
    absorption CUTICLE
    STS

    How leaves
    Allow gas So gases can
    exchange to AIR SPACES are adapted THIN diffuse in &
    happen out easily
    quickly for their
    function

    Allow
    maximum LARGE
    THIN UPPER To absorb as
    light to pass SURFACE much light as
    through EPIDERMIS posible
    palisade layer AREA

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