Question

Say a friend wants to know if the transpiration rate is different between a sunflower and a moss. They want to perform the same type of experiment as described above and want your advice as to whether it will work. What would you tell them, and why?

Answer 1

Ans) I would advise my friend not to perform a similar kind of experiment on both the plants because sunflower and moss are very different plants .Sunflower is an angiosperm while moss is a non vascular bryophyte which does not have any conductive tissue.

In Sunflower xylem is the main conductive tissue responsible for transpiration while in Moss no search conductive tissue is present and therefore the same experiment cannot be performed in both to see the transpiration rates as both will have different mechanisms of transpiration.