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Where is the blade in a leaf?
structure on a leaf is a large, broad, flat surface called the leaf blade. The blade is held away from the stem and supported by the petiole.
What is a blade in a plant?
1 : a leaf of a plant and especially of a grass. 2 : the broad flat part of a leaf.
Which part of the leaf holds the leaf blade to light?
‘Petiole holds the leaf blade to light’ means petiole help the leaf lamina or blade to lie in horizontal position.
What is the leaf blade attached to?
petiole
Most leaves have a stem that attaches the blade of the leaf to the rest of the plant. This is the petiole. However, in some plants, the leaves do not have a petiole and the blade is directly attached to the plant stem. These leaves are sessile (lacking a petiole).
What is a leaf blade in science?
Especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole. The photosynthetic part of a leaf.
What is a blade on a leaf?
leaf blade – especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole. blade. foliage, leaf, leafage – the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants.
What is blade to light?
EXPLANATION: Petiole, a stem like part of the leaf, helps the leaf lamina or blade to lie in a horizontal position, that means it holds the leaf blade to light. Leaf blade is the green expanded part with midrib and veins.
What is it called where the leaf meets the stem?
The leaves are either sessile (growing directly out of the stem) or petiolate (growing on a stalk called a petiole). Leaves grow out of nodes and the point where the leaf or petiole meets the stem is called the leaf axil.
What do you see on a leaf under the microscope?
Leaf Structure Observations. When viewing the surface of the leaf under the stereo microscope, students will be able to clearly see hair-like structures (trichome) on the leaf surface that serve a number of functions ranging from trapping insects to trapping water/moisture.
How can you see the structure of a leaf?
Whereas the transparent thin epidermal skin of the leaf allows the student to observe the stomata and other epidermal cells, it would be important to prepare a cross section of a leaf to observe the arrange of cells inside the leaf structure. Under high magnification, students will be able to view the internal structure of the leaf.
Where are the leaflets located on a compound leaf?
In a compound leaf, the leaf blade is divided, forming leaflets that are attached to the middle vein, but have their own stalks. The leaflets of palmately-compound leaves radiate outwards from the end of the petiole.
Where are the veins located on a pinnately compound leaf?
In a pinnately compound leaf, the middle vein is called the midrib. Bipinnately compound (or double compound) leaves are twice divided; the leaflets are arranged along a secondary vein, which is one of several veins branching off the middle vein. Each leaflet is called a “pinnule”.